3. Real Case

3.1. Case 1: Real-time Flight Price Drop Alerts: How MailTrigger Simplified the Notification Process and Helped Secure the Lowest Fare

On August 10th, Bear was preparing for a trip to Okinawa, Japan, scheduled for the next month. He needed to help his family book plane tickets, so he began tracking flight prices. Initially, he used price alert features from websites like Skyscanner. However, after a week, Bear became frustrated because the notifications only arrived once a day, even though he knew that flight prices fluctuated much more frequently. He wanted real-time alerts only when prices dropped.

To solve this, Bear wrote a program that checked flight prices every hour and would send a LINE notification whenever the price fell below a specific threshold. Although he initially planned to use Python to send LINE notifications, he quickly realized that the LINE API was more complex than expected, requiring the management of authentication, message formats, and other details.

Bear then decided to use MailTrigger to simplify the process. He created a mailbox in MailTrigger and set up a LINE notification route. Now, instead of dealing with the complexities of the LINE API, his program could simply send an email to MailTrigger’s SMTP host when a price drop occurred. MailTrigger would then automatically forward the email to Bear’s LINE account based on the rules he had set.

In the end, Bear successfully bought the tickets at the lowest available price, saving both money and time. This experience showed Bear how flexible and helpful the MailTrigger system can be, making the notification process easy and efficient.