HomeSeer can check your E-mail mailbox at any interval you would like. It will download your mail and check the recipient address to see if it matches this trigger.
In the trigger dialog, under type, select EMAIL reception. Enter the address of the person you wish to check for. This would be the return address. For example, if you would like a light to go on whenever your wife sends you mail from work and her E-mail address at work is "MrsUser@homeseer.com", enter "MrsUser@homeseer.com". Only E-mail from her will trigger the event. If you want the event to trigger whenever you get ANY E-mail, check the box labeled all addresses.
If you set up HomeSeer to check your mail using a POP E-mail account, note the following:
Check your current E-mail application and see if it is DELETING your E-mail from the server after it downloads it. Most readers are set up this way so that your ISP does not complain about you using server disk space. However, if you leave your E-mail reader running at all times, along with HomeSeer, HomeSeer may not see all of your E-mail since your reader is deleting it off the server before HomeSeer can check it. You can do one of the following:
Don't run your E-mail application unless you are reading your mail
Change the settings of your E-mail application to not check for mail unless you instruct it to. (Use the send and receive button in your E-mail client to check your mail.)
Change the settings of your E-mail application to download your mail, but don't delete the mail off the server. You may be able to instruct it to delete the mail off the server when you delete it from your mailbox. (Outlook Express and Outlook 98 will allow this)
Note that you will not be
able to read your E-mail from the web interface if you setup your E-mail
to use POP. The ability to read your E-mail from the web interface requires
you to use MAPI as your E-mail transport. See the web section for more
information on accessing your E-mail via the web page.