From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2008-12-09T22:38:06+09:00
Subject: Re: getting by without a server

On Dec 9, 2008, at 4:24 AM, Adam Akhtar wrote:

> ive made a simple budgeting script that takes receipts (with the
> generous help of this community) and one thing i want to add to it is
> the ability to be able to record receipts as they are made i.e.  
> straight
> after paying for a starbucks say. I thought about using my mobile  
> phone
> to email my app the details. I dont have a webserver or anything  
> online
> 24\7 so i thought about just emailing a gmail account ill set up for
> this purpose and then just scrape my mails and parse the data into my
> app.
>
> Are there any other options out there that ive missed? Something  
> better
> for gmail than this?

As Ara told me recently, email is one of the most reliable and robust  
message queues ever made.  Servers will try to deliver a message for  
five days and, as you pointed out, you're receiving computer doesn't  
even need to be online the whole time.  It's available everywhere and  
you have human interfaces (any MUA) to the queue for debugging.

There's no reason to be ashamed of a choice like that.

James Edward Gray II