On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 17:57, Jeremy McNicoll wrote: > > > > I have recently got my email automatically forwarding to my cell phone. > As well I have added some hacks to let the user enter in the email > address to forward to. The following is what I installed for the SMS > part of it. > > http://adamspiers.org/computing/email2sms/ > > Some questions that I am looking for some suggestions about the > "E-Smith" way of doing things. > > 1) I put the users email forwarding address as a entry in the userpanel. > Would it be wise to stick the PCS address to forward to in the password > file or is there a database stored somewhere for each user that I can > read? >
What I did was: - qmail supports "dash" addresses. e.g. if [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a valid email address, then [EMAIL PROTECTED] is also valid. It goes and looks for a file called .qmail-glumph in user's home directory. That can deliver to a command... - so I create a file .qmail-lgumph for every user that contains something like: |email2sms|sendsms.pl $MODEM_DEVICE You have to watch out for permissions, because it runs as the userid of "user", not as root. I ended up with sendsms.pl being setuid root. Being a Perl script, it was relatively easy for it to be reading the /home/e-smith/accounts file. It looked up the users phone number from there, and checked to see if it looked like a mobile phone number. > 2) There were quite a few files I had to add etc. Would it be wise to > get the people to install themselves or build an RPM? > > 3) Besides working on ALPHA testing, whats the next step to get this > work back to the users that use E-Smith? Should I waiste any time > packaging it or is there some kind of automagic packager that E-Smith > has? > Here's what I did. It's a bit dodgy, but feel free to improve on it. lynx -source http://install.ifost.org.au/esmith-sms The problems: - my sendsms script only works in Australia, because it uses an Australian gateway. - the install script only works in Australia, because it uses an Australian RedHat mirror that won't allow overseas connections (easy to fix) - it doesn't work very reliably anyway, because it rewrites /etc/inittab (!) to block fax reception (which was on the same line for the customer I did it for). - it doesn't have a pretty web interface for setting which modem to use. Hope this helps. I may be doing a job soon-ish where I'll have some time to improve on it. We should probably try to merge our work; I'll talk to you further about it later. > Thanks. > > > > > -- > Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues > Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org > -- Regards, Greg Baker The Institute for Open Systems Technologies Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone Int'l: 61 500 545 856 (GMT +10/11) Phone Aus: 0500 545 856 -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
