since v. 0.5 emil email client supports to access emails via mobile phones.
This is a short explanation how to enable this.
Emil and WAP
To enable wap access, make sure the permission "Emil_WAP_access" is set correctly.
Connect your mobile phone to http://path_to_emil/main_wml
After typing in the zope username and password it is possible to :
- view folders and emails
- check emails
(you should configure your pop connection correctly in the Client_Properties in the main emil Folder)
Emil and SMS
sending of SMS
Emil provides a SMS_Gateway class which supports sending of SMS to mobile phones via a email gateway.
These objects should be added under the "SMS" folder.
SMS forward of new mails
To enable SMS notification of arrival of new mesages do the following:
- First it is necessary to add an Email Filter. This can be done in the main Emil folder
under "Client_Properties".
- As soon as an email is arriving that matches to the filter, it will be moved to the corresponding folder.
- In the Email_Folder set up the SMS connection correctly under "Folder_Properties".
It is assumed that some external providers allows to write emails to an address, which is then transmitted to the mobile phone as an SMS.
( That's how it works for my mobile phone provider )
this functionality is only useful, if emails are automatically and periodically checked.
You can either write a cron job, or install xron. Add a xron object into the emil main folder and add the following line to the xron object:
<dtml-var "check_EmailAction(_.None,_)">
I could successfully trigger the xron job, but it did not reload automatically, so I suppose something is still wrong with my setup. So tell me if it works for you, or if you have problems, too.