Shutdown your PC remotely by sending just an email.

You send an email to a specific email address and your personal computer will shutdown. If so, is it helpfull for you?..if you want to learn this technique just continue to read .

Step 1 : Setup your gmail :
First of all, set up an email account. GMail support pop access.So you need a gmail account or any email account which you have pop access. Login to your account,go to "Settings" and enable POP/IMAP settings.

Step 2 - Get thunderbird portable

Download a copy of portable thunderbird:
http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/thunderbird_portable
and extract it and install that.

Step 3 - Install add-on

Now that you have a portable, working copy of mozilla thunderbird, download this add-on:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/2610

To install this into the thunderbird portable folder, open ThunderbirdPortable, and go to Tools -> Add-ons and click install. Direct thunderbird to the .xpi file you downloaded and it will install the add-on.

Restart thunderbird to proceed.

Step4 - Configure inbox

Right click on "Inbox" of Local Folder Tree and click new folder. Name this something memorable. I named mine "SMS".


Step 5: Setup All :
Next, click Tools -> Message Filters. Click "New" and create a filter. Configure your filter to meet some requirements in the top box, and configure the second box to move the message into the folder you created earlier to the local folder named "SMS" as follows:

Step6 - Configure add-on :
Create a batch file in the portable thunderbird program directory that contains something like this:

shutdown.exe -s

In my example, I'm create a shutdown.bat file and pase the above code to this bat file.

Next, open up your portable thunderbird and click on the folder you created earlier ("SMS" in my case). Then, go to Tools -> Mailbox Alert Preferences.


IMPORTANT : Make sure that you have selected your folder BEFORE editing the mailbox alert preferences. Otherwise, you will end up shutting down your computer every time you receive an email.

Check the Execute a command: checkbox as I have above, and point it to the shutdown batch file. Hit OK.

To decrease the delay between the sending of the text message to the shutting down of the computer, go to Tools -> Account Settings...
click "Server Settings" on the left side under the account you will be receiving text messages on. Under the server settings part of the box, change Check for new messages every 1 Minutes.
WellDone ! Now if you send email to that email address with containg the specified formate and if your home computer has internet connection then you can shutdown your computer just sending an email to that specific email address with specific formate.Now, you can send email from your mobile phone easily, so using your mobile phone you can shutdown your computer with this technique.
Enjoy !!!
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