SMS - notification

Vladimir Dvorak dvorakv at vdsoft.org
Thu Sep 7 07:26:03 EDT 2006


Thank you Simon!

I wonder why Cyrus hasn`t it already implemented in stable tgz. I
prepare production server and won`t use some non-official patches, which
do not come from Cyrus team.

But thank you again, this will help me much.

Vladimir 

Simon Matter píše v Čt 07. 09. 2006 v 10:35 +0200:
> > Hello List, Hello to all,
> >
> > my question is simple as written in $SUBJECT$. ;-) I found non-working
> > sending notifications via SMS.
> >
> > Im using
> >
> > cyrus-imapd-2.3.7   The cyrus mail server, supporting POP3 and IMAP4
> > protocols
> >
> > on FreeBSD 6.0 and my customers much more often cry: "why your services
> > are not enriched with SMS notification feature ???" :-)
> 
> My RedHat/Fedora RPMs include an SMS notification patch which can be used
> with Squirrelmail / AvelSieve. Of course you need some external tool to
> actually send the SMS. See the README.notify_sms below and attached patch.
> 
> Regards,
> Simon
> 
> README.notify_sms:
> ==================================================
> This package contains a notify_sms patch. It enables you to implement
> SMS notifications using sieve scripts.
> 
> 
> The following changes to the cyrus-imapd config files are needed:
> 
> in /etc/cyrus.conf, enable notifyd like this:
> notify cmd="notifyd" listen="/var/lib/imap/socket/notify" proto="udp"
> prefork=1
> 
> in /etc/imapd.conf, enable sieve notifier like this:
> sievenotifier: sms
> sendsms: /usr/bin/mysmsprog     [default: /usr/bin/sendsms]
> 
> 
> The sendsms program is called with the following parameters:
> [sendsms] -u <user> -p <priority> -o <options>
> 
> where <options> usually includes the destination number.
> 
> 
> A sample /usr/bin/sendsms script for testing is shown below:
> #!/bin/sh
> {
>   echo "args" "$*"
>   cat
> } >> /tmp/sendsms
> ==================================================



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