As the name suggests, this connects to a mail server over IMAP and waits for any incoming emails. When it receives a message it sends it off to notifo. The key thing it must do is offer as close to realtime as possible.
- Python 2.6 (May work with 2.5 but development is done on 2.6)
- An email that receives incoming messages
- An account on http://notifo.com
Please note that durring development some options may not actually do anything.
- Create an email that will be the listener
- Copy config.ini.sample to config.ini and edit with connection info
- test with
./notifo-imap-listener.py. - if no errors use ctrl-c and then start with
./notifo-imap-listener.py >output.log 2>&1 & - test it by sending an email to the address and it should show up on phone within a second or two.
- to properly kill use either ctrl-c if interactive or send SIGINT to process
kill -INT 123where 123 is process id
- Mail section is for setup of email address.
- Mail.ssl is if the client should connect to the server via SSL (highly recommended).
- Notifo section is for setup of notifo credentials
- Notifo.username is your api username which is usually the same as your actual username
- Notifo.secret is your api secret which you can get from logging in to notifo and click on settings.
- Security is for ways to prevent anyone from posting to account
- Security.from, if set to something other than None, will require messages to come from the specified email. All others will be silently dropped
- Logging is for the logging system
- Logging.file is the file to log to. If you don't want to log to a file use /dev/null
- Logging.level one of debug, info, warning, error, or critical. Used for both console and log file
- constantly listens for new mail to relay the message as quick as possible
- single user for now
- basic user validation (must come from an authorized email address)
- multi-user (using twisted)