Thread: Using N900 as a mail server/watchdog
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reinob is offline reinob
2013-11-15 , 12:21
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Originally Posted by pichlo View Post
Question: What mail server applications do people use on the N900?
Do they use any? Needless to say, the search did not reveal anything.
I use dovecot, but only for locally serving IMAP to either Modest or alpine. The actual retrieving of e-mail (for now only from gmail) is via mbsync (using IMAP).

(for completeness, the sending is handled directly -- and independently -- by modest and alpine. you/one could also use e.g. msmtp for this).

Using mbsync (which synchronizes your IMAP account locally using Maildir format), you can easily find/parse the new messages by looking at $MAILDIR/new (once you read them they will be moved to $MAILDIR/cur).

Then you just send an SMS using dbus (never done it, don't know off the top of my head how, but I'm sure it can be done).

2. Using the N900 as a mail watchdog
Another idea, use the N900 as it is, sitting quietly in the garage or the loft, checking unread emails on an external server like the one I am using now, and tweaking something like Maenotify to send an SMS. This is less favourable than option 1 since the phone would be doing only one job which feels like a waste.
If you do the above + use dovecot as e-mail server for your local network then your N900 will be more useful

Plus it could do a bunch of other NAS'sy things such as serving as a backup server using rsync, etc.
 

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