How would I build a sensor to tell me that I have a notification on home-assistant.io?

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I do not usually log in often and would love to have my HA instance tell me that I have a new email or message on the forum page... Seems like it should be doable, but I do not even know where to start since it is a remote site that requires a login... I really wish that my account page had an option to publish an MQTT message or another way to tell my server directly that a new one exists.

I know... security, ports open or web access. But I could allow port access to a single address from the internet to get a message through it my router/firewall.

How would you do this?

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The forum software, Discourse, does offer email notifications in the user preferences... from there you could use the IMAP integration to get your emails into HA.

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I will look into those options... it feels so grungy that there is not a direct option, to me.