On 10/05/2010 11:46 AM, Eric Shubert wrote:
Rob wrote:
I want to generate sms for email received for certain users. Had
anyone tried the same. Basically want to generate SMS with following
details:
1) From Id
2) Subject
Install procmail and formail (if they are not there already) and
filter incoming messages to inject a new message to the users
phonenum...@sms-messaging-address (available from their carrier) that
just has the Subject line. An example .procmailrc in the user's
directory would be:
# .procmailrc
# routes incoming mail to appropriate mailboxes
PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
MAILDIR=/path-to/vpopmail/domains/DOMAIN/USER/Maildir
DEFAULT=/path-to/vpopmail/domains/DOMAIN/USER/Maildir/new
LOGFILE=/path-to/vpopmail/domains/DOMAIN/USER/procmail.log
SHELL=/bin/sh
VERBOSE=yes
SUBJ=`/usr/bin/formail -c -xSubject:`
:0
* $ ^to_u...@domain
{
:0
| /usr/bin/formail -X "" \
-A"X-Loop: u...@domain" \
-I"Subject: ${SUBJ}" \
-i"Content-Type:" \
-i"Content-Length:" \
-I"From: User's Name <u...@domain>" \
-I"To: phonenum...@sms-messaging-address \
-I"Return-Receipt-To:" \
| /path-to/qmail-inject
}
Procmail will take some tweaking for your environment and testing but
I thought I would send this since I have done essentially the same
thing ... good luck.
PS> I just realized I did not add the From: line but you can parse
that using formail just as I did with the Subject line and add that
to the outgoing message somewhere.
Ok, I'll ask the apparently obvious and probably ignorant question.
Why wouldn't you want to simply forward the entire message? SMS length
limit perhaps? If that's the case, would SMS truncate or reject the
message?
I believe most SMS messages are limited to 160 characters.
Before I had my Blackberry, I used to send alerts to myself somewhat
like this. I sent them to my number and the carrier address, as has been
detailed before (ie:[email protected])
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