In these days of big noise on mobility, I thought it would be a good idea
to be able to receive SMS notification (at no cost...!!) of incoming
e-mails (sender, subject) on my mobile phone. I'm quite often out of the
office and able to retrieve my e-mail by Notes replication, browser and
e-mail reader, but I wanted to actually get immediate SMS notification of
sender and subject on my cell phone for prompt action, if required.
So first of all I activated a free mailbox service available from my GSM
provider. This allows SMS notification of e-mails (quite common these days)
In other words all e-mails arriving at "mycellphone@mygsmprovider.com" are
notified by an SMS displaying sender and subject (for free!).
Then I wrote a simple Notes agent, similar to the famous "Out of the
Office" one, that is simply generating a new e-mail with proper
From/Subject/To/Body fields
This agent obviously has to run when new e-mail arrives.
Tip: I enabled a filter on the SMS notification service to notify ONLY
emails containing "XYZ" in the subject. My agent appends to the new
e-mail's subject an "XYZ" suffix, in this way I'm sure I will be notified
only of e-mail coming from the office and not spam arriving directly in my
GSM provider mailbox.
Note: more complex logic can be used in the agent to take proper action in
case of particular senders or urgent e-mails, etc... Also, watch out for
"Non Delivery Report" e-mails that might send your agent in an endless
loop!!! Last but not least, a better user interface can be given for agent
configuration (i.e. GSM address to use, etc.) like the "Out of the Office"
agent activation and configuration interface.
Have fun and contact me if you need more info!
Romano Arnaldi
Domino Telecom Solutions
http://www.dominotel.com
mailto:romano@dominotel.com
Code
Sub Initialize
Dim session As New NotesSession
Dim db As NotesDatabase
Dim collection As NotesDocumentCollection
Dim doc As NotesDocument
Dim sms As NotesDocument
Dim i As Integer
Set db = session.CurrentDatabase
Set collection = db.UnprocessedDocuments
For i = 1 To collection.Count
Set doc = collection.GetNthDocument( i )
Call session.UpdateProcessedDoc( doc )
If doc.Form(0) = "Memo" Or doc.Form(0) = "Reply" Then
Set sms = New NotesDocument( db )
sms.Form = "Memo"
If doc.From(0) Like "*@*" Then
sms.INetFrom = doc.From(0)
Elseif doc.INetFrom(0) Like "*@*" Then
sms.INetFrom = doc.INetFrom(0)
Else
'if there is no valid internet address, I set myself as
return address
sms.INetFrom = "myemail@mycompany.com"
End If
sms.Subject = doc.Subject(0) + " XYZ"
'my SMS notification does not provide the body so...
sms.Body = "Cool!"
Call sms.Send( False, "mycellphone@mygsmprovider.com" )
End If
Next
End Sub
