#!/bin/sh # Send an MMS message to your phone when new emails come in. # The message will have the number of new mails in the subject # and the body will contain the From and Subject fields of up to the 3 # most recent new mails. If the new mail count is above 3, there will also # be 'and more...' at the end. # Assumes you either have mbsync setup to sync your inbox folder, # or use -l if this machine is actually your mailserver # import the config file ./.config # addr= # phone= # inbox= # all other configuration can be done in your .mailrc . ./.config oldnew=0 summary() { i=0 for m in $(\ls -1r ${inbox}/new/*); do # if there are more than 3 new messages, # just hint that there is more i=$((i + 1)) if [ ${i} -gt 3 ]; then echo "and more..." break fi # grab the From and Subject headers subject=$(grep ^Subject: ${m} | head -n 1) from=$(grep ^From: ${m} | head -n 1) # extract just the email address from the From header # ie, discard all tokens but the last # and remove angle brackets if present set -- $from while [ ${#} -gt 1 ]; do shift done echo -n $(echo ${@} | sed -e s/[\<\>]//g) # now append the message after discarding the Subject: key set -- $subject shift echo ": \"${@}\"" done } while true; do # Sync the inbox if we are not the mailserver if [ "$1" != "-l" ]; then mbsync -a fi # Count the number of new mails newnew=$(\ls -1 ${inbox}/new | wc -l) # If the number of new mails has increased if [ ${newnew} -gt ${oldnew} ]; then echo "$(summary)" \ | mail -r ${addr} \ -s "new mail [${newnew}]" \ ${phone} fi oldnew=${newnew} sleep 10m done