Progress: New Path

For the past week, my advisor and I have been examining two new methods of getting data out of SL and into Max/MSP. The first still involves heavy PHP, but instead of using Silo to store the data it'll use a MySQL database. This solution seems much more elegant and stable than the first, but will involve quite a bit more PHP study.

The second method is already well under way. I have scripted an object within SL to send every chat message it hears as an e-mail. It is done and tested, so the next step is to automatically retrieve the e-mail and format the message so it can be sent through OpenSound Control. I'm currently hung up on that part, unfortunately. I've been following this tutorial on using PHP to check e-mail through POP3, but I keep getting the following error:

POP3 connect() - Error: Can't connect to Server. Error: 110 -- Connection timed out

I believe I have the mail server address correct because when I change it, I get a server not found error instead. I'm not sure if the issue is on my end, or with Gmail where the account is. I found the following post on the tutorial's website:


>>Connected to mail server POP3 login() - Error: No connection avalible
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>>I am getting this error?
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>>Any one can advise me?

>If you’re on a server without root access, you can’t use any port below 1024.


That's a different error than what I'm getting, but I can see myself having that problem on the school's servers. Gmail's configuration page says that port 995 is needed, which is obviously below 1024. The school has been having network issues over the weekend because of power outages all over town, but I've tried it on three separate days now and still no luck. I'm going to fiddle with it some more before my meeting with my advisor today, but I think this might end up being another IT issue. Crossing my fingers for no power outages today!

- M