[sword-devel] Bible in a Year Email app

Kahunapule Michael P. Johnson mpj at eBible.org
Sat May 22 22:54:03 MST 2004


Sounds familiar. <grin> See http://eBible.org/subscribe.htm.


At 00:33 21-05-04, you wrote:
>I was struck by some inspiration to do an application for myself, but I
>wanted to first check if anyone else has done it or not.
>
>In an attempt to make my devotions more organized, I thought of writing
>an app that can automagically email you the text of a daily reading so
>you can read through the Bible in a year just by keeping up with your
>Inbox.
>
>I wrote a quick and dirty lookup program using the Sword API, and
>started researching libesmtp to see how to send the mail.  I want a
>command-line app that will read a config file for the scripture
>references for the date, pull the references from sword, and mail them
>to a configured email address.  This can all be setup to run from a cron
>job.
>
>Before I jump in and write it though, I wanted to check if anyone else
>has done it, or something similar.
>
>Thanks,
>Derek Viljoen
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