[ale] Semi Ot: email to sms

[djpfulio at jdpfu.com (DJ-Pfulio)]

The SMTP specs mandate that the email content have 7-bit ASCII as the message. I
looked it up a few years ago to get the client where I was working to follow the
specs.

Email systems which ignore that show up as blank emails for many
standards-compliant email clients.  MIME is an optional addon where HTML and
other types of formated attachments are allowed.  OPTIONAL.

Text is still required in emails, period.


On 10/09/2015 12:10 AM, Justin Goldberg wrote:
> If you don't have the imap connector on the exchange server, there's the
> paid exquilla plugin for Thunderbird that uses exchange web services (so it
> only works on exchange 2010 and later). Evolution supports ews also.
> 
> If you use outlook (I don't like it either, it's a massively bloated memory
> hog, and the 64-bit version is flaky. Although I haven't used outlook 2016
> 64-bit yet) it has forwarding rules but afaik doesn't have one that can
> strip formatting, so your first 160 characters could be Word-formatted HTML
> formatted, haha. All that weird <v> formatting garbage! I'm sure there's a
> vbscript out there that can extract the body as text that could then be
> tweaked to forward the email.
> 
> Just my two cents.
> 
> Justin
> On Oct 8, 2015 9:29 PM, "DJ-Pfulio" <DJPfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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 ....
>>>