[DominikHoffmann]

Does anyone know of a solution for having the Cyrus imap server, which is built into Mac OS X Server, page a cell phone number when it noticed new mail in a particular account?

The idea is to use something like a Treo 650 to read mail off the imap server. However, unlike a Blackberry, without modification, the Treo would only notice new message when it is instructed to check. With some add-on to Cyrus an SMS with content "You have new mail from suchandsuch@wherever.com" could be sent to the phone, so that the user of the phone becomes aware of new mail immediately.

Does such a solution exist?

[Mithras]

Sounds like a procmail recipe to me, assuming you can get SMS by sending email to 123456789@yourprovider.com?

[DominikHoffmann]

Originally posted by Mithras:
Sounds like a procmail recipe to me...

Hey, we're getting somewhere! However, could you please enlighten me as to what procmail is?

Dominik

[Gavin]

"Procmail is a mail processing system that takes the simplistic functions present in e-mail programs and turns them into a powerful, flexible e-mail processing language. Procmail can quickly and efficiently sort e-mail into folders; but it can also automatically forward mail; save messages to files; process commands embedded in messages; and perform sophisticated anti-spam filtering." - from link # 3

homepage:
http://www.procmail.org/


FAQ:
http://laku19.adsl.netsonic.fi/era/p.../mini-faq.html


using it with OSX
http://www.afp548.com/articles/Panther/procmail.html