mailinsms

What is it?

This is an e-mail to SMS formatter and SMS sender.

Of course, only if you have an SMS gate, that forward the message into an SMS.

Mailinsms can NOT send SMS directly! It is your mobile servicer's task. The SMS gateways can send SMSes. You can send e-mails to these gateways and they sends a specified part of this e-mail in SMS.
This version only supports the mobile servicer T-Mobile (Hungary). If you would like to take experiences with non-(or not yet)supported services, you have freedom with the //EMAIL:SENDER//, //EMAIL:SUBJECT// and the //EMAIL:BODY// internal SMS sender scripts. If you would like a support for the new SMS gate, please contact me!
For further informations on the //EMAIL:WESTEL// script, read the WESTEL text file (Hungarian).
Note: Westel has changed its name to T-Mobile at Juny 1. 2004. I kept the old name almost everywhere in the project (so at the script name //EMAIL:WESTEL//).

In general, if you need more help, see the well-commented configuration file.

Use only on your own risk! If you get a lot of SMSes, call your mobile services's center number.

Features

My five aspects while I am developing my mailinsms: to be flexible, stable, small, fast and protect from “bad men”.

• split e-mails, and cut above a constant length
• by-pass attachments
• character economize (compression)
• numbering the SMSes
• protection from the “bad men”
• many filters to guard your SMSes: by sender, subject, recipient and time
• Mailbomb filter protects you from mailbombs
• control your Linux box with e-mails (or with SMSes!)
• support for easy SMS sending with the --message parameter
• support for MIME 1.0 (only the most used parts), HTML, RichText
• support for ISO8859-1, ISO8859-2, Unicode
• send information about the size of the mail
• protection from occurent crash with pid file and watcher process
• support for different mobil phones with many options, you can format your SMSes
• utilities (all are Hungarian): calendar, jokes sender, horoscope, server state, crash watcher, weather forecaster

Mailinsms doesn't support base64 and uucode coding, because only a few mailer program use it for coding texts.
Mailinsms processes the e-mail line by line, and the previous line is not stored. So by this way, mailinsms won't be 100% compatible with MIME 1.0.

Download

Warning: this version is not compatible with version older than 0.6.2. In this case, please install first the mailinsms 0.6.2!
The newest version can be downloaded here:
mailinsms-1.0.2.tar.gz
Released: 2004/06/23
Addons (Hungarian):
jokes

The mailinsms project won the first place on the Hungarian XX. National Computer Project Competition (Garay-competition) in the internet category in 2003, in Hungary.

Author: NÉMETH, Zsolt Balázs