Sexxymail is a project mainly written in C#, it's free.
a sexxy voice reads to you headings of you new unread mail while u cook or brush
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what the heck? sexxymail is something that's more like joke turned serious! I had this idea i joked about - imagine waking up in the morning and there's this nice voice that reads to you all yo new mail as u brush teeth?!
seemed like at first, but when I encountered some little knowwn APIs and breakthroughs at Google I decided to make this one of my "over-night" hacks and like many of those, I didn't do it perfectly, but it gets the job done a bit: currently:
Note : because o bandwidth issues on my box, I decided to only make the tool read out only "From" and "subject" headers, but it should be hard to read the entire mail body should u require such functionality.
-- and then one small zib is that for each mail it checks out, the mail's flag "\Seen" is set, so that on the server, that message is marked as read - which might not be a good thing if u intend to later on read the mail in say gmail or some other client, but to compesate for this, i make Sexxy set the "SexxyFeeds" label on this "checkout" mail, so that u can later on read it in one place if so required by navigating to mail under this label.
Licences? This is unlicenced work! Do with it whatever u wish! Just don't involve me please incase u use it to do evil please :-)
But do let me know if it turns out to be useful for anything otherthan amusement, and let me know if there are improvements (definitely) that I can make to it.
Lastly : current codebase is .NET in C#, but u could port it to anything else