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After hearing about git commit hooks, I was thinking maybe there are such things as email hooks…
Is it possible for me to build a program that says “hey, you just received an email, now run this ruby script”? Something like a GMail Web Hook. Is there anything out there like that? I mean I could build a cron thing that checked my email all the time, but maybe there’s a more formal way.
Looking for an online email system to do this with, not say my Mac Mail.
You can try smtp2web. It basically consists of a SMTP daemon that maps incoming email to HTTP urls. Then, you can run the server-side code of your choice on those URLs. This is just one way to approach the problem. It’s designed particularly for use with Google App Engine.
You can either run your own instance, or just sign up for mapping (e.g. viatropos@smtp2web.com -> http://viatropos.com) and forward your gmail account to that. Then, you would run a HTTP server at viatropos.com.
EDIT: I also found Astrotrain, which is similar but written in Ruby.