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I installed mail2sms yesterday and feel obliged to pass along kudos to
Daniel for creating such a useful tool. I had previously used a pretty
kludgey home grown Procmail recipe to send alerts to my mobile phone
when I received email from selected senders. It attempted to pass along
the first 160 characters of the email - sometimes successfully. In the
case of notifies of newly published geocaches, I wanted more editorial
control, and mail2sms was just the ticket. So, THANK YOU Daniel.

To those who have struggled with procmail -> mail2sms -> sendmail, I
offer snippets of my .procmailrc file and mail2sms configs...

----------------------------- .procmailrc -----------------------------

## Various directories for storing procmail log, rc and kill files
PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail
LOGFILE=$PMDIR/.log

# Page myself on receipt of email from selected induhviduals
#
# Note: $PAGE_FILE is one email address per line with metachars escaped
#       e.g. baz@foo\.com
#            @geocaching\.com
#       There should be no blank lines in the file
#
PAGE_FILE=${PAGE_FILE:-$PMDIR/pagefile.data}
PAGE_ENABLE=${PAGE_ENABLE:-$PMDIR/page.enable}
# You'll obviously want to change the phone# below to that of your cell
# and the domain as appropriate for your wireless provider
PAGE_ADDR="888...@vt..."

# Init other variables
FORMAIL="/usr/bin/formail"
FROM_ADDR=${FROM_ADDR:-`$FORMAIL -rtz -xTo:`}
SUBJ=${SUBJ:-`$FORMAIL -xSubject:`}

# GNU egrep doesn't run out of memory after just a few
# meta-characters during "egrep -f".  SunOS egrep does.
EGREP=${EGREP:-egrep}

# v.i.p.'s
:0ci
* $ ? test -e $PAGE_ENABLE
* $ ? test -s $PAGE_FILE
* ? echo "$FROM_ADDR" | $EGREP -i -f $PAGE_FILE
* ! ^Subject:.*(fw(d)?|forward):
* < 256000
| $FORMAIL -I Content-Length: -i "Subject: $FROM_ADDR $SUBJ"\
| mail2sms -o -q -c /usr/local/mail2sms/config 2>&1\
| $SENDMAIL $SENDMAILFLAGS $PAGE_ADDR

# Notify on newly published geocaches
:0ci
* ^From.*noreply@geocaching\.com
* ^Subject:.*Notify: 
| mail2sms -o -q -c /usr/local/mail2sms/config.gc 2>&1\
| $SENDMAIL $SENDMAILFLAGS $PAGE_ADDR

---------------------- /usr/local/mail2sms/config ----------------------
# To hide the SEARCH lines from the log, uncomment this:
showlog: -search
outsize: 160

##############################################################################
# First-line stuff in replies:
#
options: once body 
search: "^ *((On|At|Circa) .* (wrote))"
replace: ""

#options: once body 
#search: "date"
#replace: ""

##############################################################################
# Quoted lines:
#
options: body prio 2
search: ^ *>.*
replace:

##############################################################################
# Initial spaces
#
options: fullbody prio 2 subject
search: "^ +"
replace:

##############################################################################
# "re:" parts in subjects
#
options: subject nocase
search: .*(Re)(\[.*\]|): *
replace:

##############################################################################
# Remove space between certain punctuation letters.
#
options: fullbody prio 4
search: "([-*!=.,]) ([-*!=.,])"
replace: \1\2

##############################################################################
# Sequences of weird letters only one of them
#
options: fullbody prio 4
search: "([-\._=!+*#;:,~!&]){2,}"
replace: \1

##############################################################################
# Remove space after non-word symbols
#
options: prio 4
search: "(\W) +"
replace: \1

##############################################################################
# Cut off parentheses from From names.
#
options: from
search: $[^)]*$
replace:

##############################################################################
# URLs don't do any good in SMS messages:
#
options: nocase
search: (http|ftp)://[a-z0-9.~/-]*
replace: (URL)

##############################################################################
# Remove PGP stuff
#
search: "-+BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-+\nHash:"
replace: ""

##############################################################################
# Friends:
#
# (real names elided with asterisk substitution for privacy)

options: nocase
search: "*** *******"
replace: mom

options: nocase
search: "(***|*********) *******"
replace: Liz

# etc., etc.

##############################################################################
# Output with two extra spaces:
#
output: "F=$from S=$subject B=$body"

                                 -=*=-

-------------------- /usr/local/mail2sms/config.gc --------------------
# To hide the SEARCH lines from the log, uncomment this:
showlog: -search
outsize: 160

##############################################################################
# Initial spaces
#
options: fullbody prio 2 subject
search: "^ +"
replace:

##############################################################################
# Notify from Geocaching.com
#

options: body prio 2
search: "This is an automated message .*"
replace:

options: body prio 2
search: ^For G.*
replace:

options: body prio 2
search: ^Location: .*
replace:

options: body prio 2
search: "^.* published .*"
replace:

options: body prio 2
search: ^Log Date: .*
replace:

options: body prio 2
search: ^Published
replace:

options: body prio 2
search: "Visit this log entry at the below address:"
replace:

options: body prio 2
search: ^http.*
replace:

options: body prio 2
search: "^Profile for .*"
replace:

options: body prio 2
search: "^Notification: "
replace:

##############################################################################
# Remove space between certain punctuation letters.
#
options: fullbody prio 4
search: "([-*!=.,]) ([-*!=.,])"
replace: \1\2

##############################################################################
# Sequences of weird letters only one of them
#
options: fullbody prio 4
search: "([-\._=!+*#;:,~!&]){2,}"
replace: \1

##############################################################################
# Remove space after non-word symbols
#
options: prio 4
search: "(\W) +"
replace: \1

##############################################################################
# Output with one extra space:
#
output: "F=GC B=$body"
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

In the case of the geocaching config, it reduces the following email...
                                 -=*=-
[some header snippage has occurred]
From: Geocaching <no...@ge...>
To: [elided]
Date: 13 May 2009 21:03:04 -0700
Subject: [GEO] Notify: Radical Ed published Homewood (Traditional Cache)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Message-Id: <200...@si...>
X-Greylist: Recipient e-mail whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0 ([elided]); Wed, 13 May 2009 21:03:09 -0700 (PDT)
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by ([elided]) id n4E434Yb023215
Status: RO
Content-Length: 691
Lines: 23

This is an automated message from Geocaching

For GC1R9B9: Homewood (Traditional Cache)
Location: Oregon, United States
5.2mi SE (8.4km SE)
Radical Ed published Homewood (Traditional Cache) at 5/13/2009

Log Date: 5/13/2009
Published

Visit this log entry at the below address:
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LUID=504d96f1-510a-40ee-ada3-c7dec1b755d1

Visit Traditional Cache
Homewood
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=b5255cb1-793e-4d69-99e9-581675eacaf8

Profile for Radical Ed:
http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=a703f7ed-7459-42ea-ad35-1a108aa404eb

Notification: New Notification ADP Traditional
http://www.geocaching.com/notify/edit.aspx?NID=112481
                                 -=*=-

... to this ...

F=GC B=5.2mi SE (8.4km SE)Visit Traditional Cache Homewood New Notification ADP Traditional

Perfect - tells me if the cache is within the locus of home or work and
how close. Now I know whether to fire up my MUA and browser to go
looking for an FTF.

cheers,
Sandy

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