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I am trying to work out a way of getting the Met Office to email me a forecast once a day and todate I've drawn a blank.

Sailmail appears to provide a forecast on demand, but I've not managed to get this to work.

Does anybody know if this is possible? Or should I contact the Met Office and suggest this as a service improvement?
 
Sandy said:
I am trying to work out a way of getting the Met Office to email me a forecast once a day and todate I've drawn a blank.

Sailmail appears to provide a forecast on demand, but I've not managed to get this to work.

Does anybody know if this is possible? Or should I contact the Met Office and suggest this as a service improvement?
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Yes it is possible.
Have a look at www.saildocs.com , ask their help file and you will find instructions how to automatically get the weather product you need emailed to you, at the frequency you need, for how long you need.
 
Roberto said:
Yes it is possible.
Have a look at www.saildocs.com , ask their help file and you will find instructions how to automatically get the weather product you need emailed to you, at the frequency you need, for how long you need.
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To expand a bit..

http://www.saildocs.com/info

This works for a one off -

________________________
To:->query@saildocs.com

Subject -> blank

Message -> send http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/marine-inshore-waters

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Returns this ->

Code: 
[FONT=arial]URL: [/FONT][URL]http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/marine-inshore-waters[/URL]
[FONT=arial]Date: 21 Jul 2017 16:55:34 -0000[/FONT]
[FONT=arial]Last-Modified: 21 Jul 2017 18:00:00 -0000[/FONT]
[FONT=arial]Expires: 21 Jul 2017 16:56:25 -0000[/FONT]

[FONT=arial](Converted from HTML)[/FONT]
[FONT=arial]Inshore Waters forecast - Met Office[/FONT]

[FONT=arial]   Weather[/FONT]
[FONT=arial]   Climate[/FONT]
[FONT=arial]   Learning[/FONT]
[FONT=arial]   Research[/FONT]
[FONT=arial]   Products[/FONT]
[FONT=arial]   News[/FONT]
[FONT=arial]   Holiday weather[/FONT]

[FONT=arial]   UK forecast[/FONT]
[FONT=arial]   Weather warnings[/FONT]
[FONT=arial]   Specialist forecasts[/FONT]
[FONT=arial]   Last 24 hours[/FONT]
[FONT=arial]   UK climate[/FONT]
[FONT=arial]   World weather[/FONT]
[FONT=arial]   Weather guide[/FONT]
[FONT=arial]   Holiday weather[/FONT]
[FONT=arial]   Weather services[/FONT]

[FONT=arial]Use my current location  crosshair[/FONT]

[FONT=arial]Inshore waters and strong winds[/FONT]
[FONT=arial]Share[/FONT]
[FONT=arial]   facebook[/FONT]
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[FONT=arial]   twitter[/FONT]
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[FONT=arial]   email[/FONT]
[FONT=arial]   print[/FONT]

[FONT=arial]Updated: 1655 UTC on [/FONT][FONT=arial]Friday 21 July 2017[/FONT]
[FONT=arial]Key Guide[/FONT]

[FONT=arial]Strong winds[/FONT]

[FONT=arial]Strong coastal winds are forecast for the coastal areas coloured in red on the map.[/FONT]

[FONT=arial]Map time[/FONT]

[FONT=arial]Map menu[/FONT]

[FONT=arial]Select your map display from the options below[/FONT]
[FONT=arial]   Shipping forecast and gale warnings[/FONT]
[FONT=arial]   Inshore waters and strong winds[/FONT]
[FONT=arial]   High seas and storm warnings[/FONT]
[FONT=arial]   Extended outlook[/FONT]

[FONT=arial]Print version / Text only[/FONT]
[FONT=arial]Inshore waters forecast[/FONT]
[FONT=arial]60 nm Shetland Isles[/FONT]

[FONT=arial]Inshore waters and strong winds[/FONT]

[FONT=arial]Issued at 1800 UTC on [/FONT][FONT=arial]Friday 21 July 2017[/FONT]

[FONT=arial]For coastal areas up to 12 miles offshore[/FONT]
[FONT=arial]for the period 1800 UTC Friday 21 July to 1800 UTC [/FONT][FONT=arial]Saturday 22 July 2017[/FONT]

[FONT=arial]General Situation[/FONT]

[FONT=arial]Low pressure will bring very unsettled conditions to all areas except the far north of Scotland during the next day or two.[/FONT]
[FONT=arial]Show all areas 1. Cape Wrath to Rattray Head including Orkney 2. Rattray Head to Berwick upon Tweed 3. Berwick upon Tweed to Whitby 4. Whitby to Gibraltar Point 5. Gibraltar Point to North Foreland 6. North Foreland to Selsey Bill 7. Selsey Bill to Lyme Regis 8. Lyme Regis to Lands End including the Isles of Scilly 9. Lands End to St Davids Head including the Bristol Channel 10. St Davids Head to Great Orme Head, including St Georges Channel 11. Great Orme Head to the Mull of Galloway 12. Isle of Man 13. Lough Foyle to Carlingford Lough 14. Mull of Galloway to Mull of Kintyre including the Firth of Clyde and North Channel 15. Mull of Kintyre to Ardnamurchan Point 16. The Minch 17. Ardnamurchan Point to Cape Wrath 18. Shetland Isles 19. Channel Islands[/FONT]

[FONT=arial]Cape Wrath to Rattray Head.......


[/FONT]
[FONT=arial]More marine weather[/FONT]
[FONT=arial]   Shipping forecast and gale warnings[/FONT]
[FONT=arial]).[/FONT]

Had to snip stuff from the bottom as it's too long to post.


Looking at the saildocs page you can get it to send once a day if you want.

sub FZNT23.KWNM
sub FZNT24.KWNM

This enters a subscription for the Boston and Chesapeake Coastal forecasts (see the "nws-atl" index). By default these are fetched once per day. The period and time can be overriden by adding commands as follows:

FZNT23.KWNM time=00:00 interval=6

This will fetch the document every 6 hours beginning at 00:00z. Subscriptions are normally entered for 14 days, a different period can be specificed as follows:

FZNT23.KWNM days=7

A confirmation will be sent for any changes to a subscription. In addition, a full status listing can be requested by including the command "status", e.g.

FZNT23.KWNM days=10 time=12:00
status
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Thanks for the posts. Looks like I am doing something wrong on the sailmail site as I am getting FTP and HTML errors, but doing this on a smartphone when I get back to the UK I'll try and set it up on my PC.
 
Thanks all sorted.

If I use the boat email address it works if I use my personal one it does not, due to the security I have on my personal one.

This is exactly what I was after. :D
 
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