Is it possible to "expect" an email

Roy Hann Beginner Posts: 6 Points: 3 Rating: 0 Authority: 0 Joined: 18 January 2015	#1 0 01 January 2016 12:43:20 I receive daily email about the outcome of operations on various remote computer systems. I can easily filter for notifications of errors, but I want to also be notified when an expected email doesn't arrive within (say) a few hours of when it was expected. Is it possible to automate that within The Bat?

AnrDaemon Guru Posts: 490 Points: 442 Rating: 7 Authority: 7 Joined: 05 November 2013	#2 0 12 March 2016 07:29:39 This doesn't sound like a task for an e-mail client. The Bat is written to process e-mail messages. Not the lack of them.

Daniel van Rooijen Administrator Posts: 1326 Points: 4149 Rating: 279 Authority: 284 Joined: 04 September 2003	#3 0 13 August 2016 09:26:13 I don't have a full solution either, but maybe you can create a small file at a certain location, and write a filter in The_Bat that deletes this file when one of those important messages comes in (so, as long as the file exists, no message has arrived yet). Then, use a third party app that monitors that location and alerts you if the file is older than 'n' hours. I haven't tried, but I believe that DropIT can do this: http://www.dropitproject.com/#features Of course, you'd also have to think of an automated way to put a new file there once the action has completed. Hopefully DropIt can do that too, but I don't know for sure. I volunteer as a moderator to help keep the forum tidy. I do not work for Ritlabs SRL.