Ubuntu Manpage: sms4you - Personal gateway connecting SMS with XMPP or email.

NAME

       sms4you - Personal gateway connecting SMS with XMPP or email.

       sms4you  forwards  messages  from  and  to  SMS  and  connects either with sms4you-xmpp or
       sms4you-email to choose the other mean of communication.  Nice for  receiving  or  sending
       SMS, independently from carrying a SIM card.

IDEA

       Connect  a  suitable  GSM  modem  or  phone  containing a SIM card into a computer (e.g. a
       Raspberry Pi) at a fixed place. Give sms4you access to either a simple email address or  a
       small  xmpp  server.  It will use this connection to receive emails or xmpp messages to be
       sent out as SMS and to send out emails or xmpp messages with received SMS messages.

CONCRETELY - WHY?

       There can be many reasons, why you want to use sms4you. Here are some examples:

       • You are living in the internetz, and you just need a gateway to this  old  thing  "SMS",
         which some people really still seem to use.

       • You  travel  and  use  local  SIM  cards,  but  you still want to be able to receive SMS
         confirmation codes from banks and services.

       • You don't want to carry a (registered) SIM card for good reasons, but still you want  to
         be able to send and receive SMS.

REQUIREMENTS

       sms4you  is  implemented  as  a Python daemon, using Asynchronous I/O.  For the connection
       with the modem it uses ModemManager.  The different  gateways  for  email  and  xmpp  have
       different depenedencies and are wrapped therefore into different sub-projects:

INSTALLATION

       • As an email gateway

       • As a xmpp gateway

   Run sms4you as unprivileged user
          $ sudo addgroup --force-badname --system _sms4you
          $ sudo adduser --force-badname --home /nonexistent \
                --ingroup _sms4you --no-create-home --system _sms4you
          $ sudo cp sms4you.conf /etc/dbus-1/system.d/
          $ sudo cp sms4you.pkla /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/30-site.d/
          $ sudo chown root:_sms4you /etc/sms4you/{sim_pin,xmpp_component_password}
          $ sudo chmod 640 /etc/sms4you/{sim_pin,xmpp_component_password}

COPYRIGHT AND COPYLEFT

• Felix Delattre felix@delattre.de

• Martin debacle@debian.org

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of
the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either
version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY;
without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along with this
program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

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