Carl’s Blog

I had the idea of sending myself an SMS message anytime I received an email. I know that can be overbearing for some, and even me for my non-personal email. Since I don’t really get anything but person-to-person emails there, I figured it would be worth it to try. Also, I got my cellphone before AT&T Wireless was bought up by Cingular. Therefore I’m still on an old AT&T plan which doesn’t charge for incoming SMS messages, so it wouldn’t cost me anything. I’m running my personal email through a hosting company (DreamHost), so I decided to try using procmail to do it. Another option was to rely on a client to forward the messages. While this may be straightforward for some, I had no experience at all in procmail. Read on to see how I got it to work.
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