[ale] Semi Ot: email to sms

[Boris Borisov]

This is single user project for now all for my own use. Until IT department
implement something but in the way they are moving would not happen in next
year I think :)

In general I have to grab around 5-6 lines from the mail body (the rest is
junk mostly) and text it to myself. I'm on VZ company phone so I have tried
mail to phonenumber at vtext.com and worked.

Today I've tried DavMail gateway with thunderbird and works so fetchmail
should work as well. Although I got problems with sending emails but didn't
dive deep into it. The only thing that I noticed that the mails are saved
as DRAFT but not sent. Should look later on that.

Is not something that my salary depends on but will be improvement and
something to do.

Thanks everybody for reply and I'll keep update.

On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 8:43 AM, Lightner, Jeff <JLightner at dsservices.com>
wrote:

> Coincidentally I just finished up a project using fetchmail and procmail
> to get Office365 email attachments at command line.
>
> The write up at the link below should give you ideas on how to extract the
> emails using those tools:
>
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/mensawater-183304/cli-to-get-oracle-supply-network-email-attachments-36724/
>
> If you're doing a local Exchange server rather than Office365 your
> fetchmail setup would need to point to your local Exchange server.
>
> I saw mention of metamail and uudeview for getting attachments but didn't
> try either.   The unmime.pl Perl script mentioned in the above extracts
> both attachments and bodies.   It should be fairly simple to write a script
> that sends the extracted body into mail.
>
> We send a fair amount of TXT messages simply by using mailx to send email
> to defined phone numbers.   Some of the providers (e.g. AT&T) might block
> you if you're doing a high volume that way so you might have to have your
> own SMS gateway.  It wasn't clear from original question if you already
> have that.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> DJ-Pfulio
> Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2015 9:26 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] Semi Ot: email to sms
>
> Fetchmail + procmail?
>
> It would be easier if the mail came to a normal MTA - then fetchmail could
> be dropped.  Used to run remote tasks for SW builds via email control msgs
> to a specific account based on the subject.
>
> The old pi at hz.com service worked this way too, I bet.
>
>
> On 10/08/2015 08:46 PM, Boris Borisov wrote:
> > My company ( the company I work for :) use exchange email. Is there
> > solution for following task? Email client receive email as usual,
> > crops the garbage from email body and sends new email to the SMS
> gateway.
> >
> > I suppose:
> >
> > 1. I need email client that works with exchange but stores in some
> > easy to read format aka txt. Open source ???
> >
> > 2. Script to grep what I need from email.
> >
> >
> > 3. Send new formated email to SMS gateway.
> >
> >
> > Any info very welcome ....
> >
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