Re: Delivery event notification

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Paul Gamble - MWeb wrote:
...
> Our Postfix-based system is of a multiple hosted domains, multiple
> mailhosts/stores nature. The options I'm considering are anything from
> enabling Biff and hacking comsat to watching Postfix log files and
> possibly using the pipe mailer. Anyone have any thoughts / advice /
> pointers in this regard?

I have implemented such a solution, it's very simple-minded. For every
user who wants SMS alerts, I set up (or rather, the system sets up via a
cron job) an appropriate forward:

alert-[digest]@smsalert.box
localusername

so the user still gets a copy, but a copy is CC'ed to the smsalert.box

the [digest] is just the UUencoded username :D

on the smsalert box, I digest each mail using a Perl script which reads
the mail file from postfix, then sends the SMS accordingly [using a Web
Service call -- although you could also use Perl gsmlib or Gnokii::GSM]


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Orlando Andico <orly@mozcom.com>
Mosaic Communications, Inc.