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WeatherCat => WeatherCat Feature Requests => Topic started by: The Grand Poohbah on March 23, 2012, 06:01:39 PM

Title: Custom alerts to specific email addresses
Post by: The Grand Poohbah on March 23, 2012, 06:01:39 PM
I would like more specificity in selecting which email addresses to use for custom alerts. For example, I want WeatherCat to send me, and only me, a text message when a custom alert fires. I can do this using something like "XXX5550199@txt.att.net" as an email address. I don't want to broadcast the alert to all the user emails, just mine.
Title: Quick fix for now. (Re: Custom alerts to specific email addresses)
Post by: elagache on March 23, 2012, 07:15:48 PM
Dear Grand Poohbah,

I assume a welcome is appropriate!  (http://www.canebas.org/Weather/LWC_forum/Custom_emoticons/welcome_smiley.gif)

You'll have to tell us how you got to be the Grand Poohbah  ;)

I would like more specificity in selecting which email addresses to use for custom alerts. For example, I want WeatherCat to send me, and only me, a text message when a custom alert fires. I can do this using something like "XXX5550199@txt.att.net" as an email address. I don't want to broadcast the alert to all the user emails, just mine.

If you want a quick fix for this you have all your WeatherCat emails sent to a single address and then use filtering rules on your email client to then forward the emails around depending on the subject or content.  I use this to forward emails on evapotranspiration to the resident gardening expert without bothering her with all the other email related emails.

For a small investment of time, this works very nicely at least in my case.  [bounce]

Cheers, Edouard [cheers1]
Title: Re: Custom alerts to specific email addresses
Post by: The Grand Poohbah on March 23, 2012, 07:26:50 PM
Nice. Simple and effective. Thanks for the suggestion. --grand
Title: Re: Custom alerts to specific email addresses
Post by: WCDev on March 24, 2012, 10:11:28 AM
Thanks for the suggestion - I've added it to the list.

Cheers,
Stu.