Modem Manager SMS Emailer

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• This project was for a friend who needed a way to get SMS messages and get them sent via email. The easiest way to do this is by using a cheapo modem (this was tested on Ericsson N5321) and using modem manager (which can be found on many linux based operating systems)
• This has very limited functionality as it is a lite python wrapper for the Modem Manager CLI.
• Supported Modems: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/ModemManager/SupportedDevices/

Goals

• To receive sms txt messages and email to an address
• A script which can be used on a raspberry pi to indefintely run.

Requirements

• Linux Based Machine
• SMTP Server / GMail Dev Account

Prerequisites

• SQL Lite 3
• Python 3
• Modem Manager (Linux)

sudo apt-get install sqlite3
sudo apt-get install python3
sudo apt-get install modemmanager

Setup

• In order for this service to send emails, you'll need to connect it to a SMTP server.
• To run the dummy email server use $ sudo python -m smtpd -c DebuggingServer -n localhost:1025 and this will start a server for you which will output any outgoing messages onto a terminal.
• If you wish to use gmail you will need to edit a few constants under the directory mail/mailbox.py namely:

mailbox.py

METHOD = "gmail"
FROM = '[email protected]'
TO = '[email protected]'
SERVER = 'localhost'
PORT = 1025
PASSWORD = "yourpassword"

• Details for seting up SMTP for your gmail account can be found here: https://www.androidauthority.com/gmail-smtp-settings-801100/

• Note: For Gmail and 2 factor auth you'll need to setup a app password, more details on link above.

• The static method sendMessage(message) can be updated to whatever server or library you will want to use.

Running

• Simply run $ python main.py and the program will run indefinitely.