App to forward SMS to an Email address?

[Guest chucky.egg]

I'm hoping to find an application that will automatically (ideally, failing that then manually would do) forward individual SMS messages I receive to an email address I can specify.

Spoofing the From address from my Contacts (if found) would be nice, or hopefully including the Contact details, not just the mobile number, in the message somewhere.

It needs to run on the device only (so not something that requires me to connect to my laptop) and needs to let me choose which account to send the email from (because I don't think my Exchange account will let me spoof email addresses!)

Anyone know of anything like that?

[Guest Paul (MVP)]

I don't know of anything like that i'm afraid, although with my developer hat on, it's fairly straightforward to write.

Intercept SMS -> (optionally remove from SMS account) -> construct email -> put in outbox -> job done.

I'm pretty sure you can't spoof the sender message using this method, the best way to do that would be to have a PHP script on a server somewhere which actually sent the mail, and this in turn was called by the application. What you lose then is the resilience of the application working when there's no network connection, but you could work around that really.

Anyway, rambling, the upshot is - don't know of anything to do it, but someone could write it.

P

[Guest chucky.egg]

Are you volunteering your "someone" abilities?

Don't mind paying!?!?!

[Guest Paul (MVP)]

PM...

P

[Guest levanter]

Are you volunteering your "someone" abilities?

Don't mind paying!?!?!

coincidentally I had this exact same idea today, and i am a developer, I will be creating an APP to do this , as I need it for myself.

ps. which you can beta test once i have it working if you like ;)

Edited November 1, 2007 by levanter

[Guest chucky.egg]

Love to Beta test!

It might be worth PM'ing Paul as he and I had a conversation and came up with a basic spec - he might have started developing already (I haven't been back to him about it actually, ooops!)

If you're interested I can send you the basic "MoSCoW" spec that we did...

[Guest levanter]

Love to Beta test!

It might be worth PM'ing Paul as he and I had a conversation and came up with a basic spec - he might have started developing already (I haven't been back to him about it actually, ooops!)

If you're interested I can send you the basic "MoSCoW" spec that we did...

Hi

I whipped up a prototype last night and it works fine. Before I started I did a bit of reading and found some constraints, but have it working in a few different flavours (ActiveSync with exchange and other accounts configured in the phone outlook or pure SMTP. Have a few problems:

1.) Its leaving the GPRS connection open afterwards, i need to turn this off afterwards

2.) its also forwarding my Delivery Report to the emal account LOL

3.) if using pure SMTP and not an account set up in Outlook, Can only send to non SSL SMTP servers, eg. NTL/Virgin SMTP not GMAIL SMTP

Not sure what MoSCow is, but yeah pls if you'll think it will help. Before you can test it out, i need make my hard coded email address configurable

ps. This software will only run on WM5/WM6 phones, this is working on the HTC 710

[Guest chucky.egg]

1. Closing GPRS isn't an issue for me, but might be if you force it closed afterwards (I have Exchange ActiveSync, which will/should re-open the GPRS)

2. I don't use delivery reports, but being able to include/exclude by SMS "key word" would be a useful addition

3. Hmmm, I'd prefer to send using "Pocket Outlook" anyway, but I guess that might be an issue for some

I'd never heard of MoSCoW either - it's "Must (have), Should (have), Could (have), Wont (have/do)" a bit like a SWOT analysis for requirements.

Must

Keep whole message together if multi-part (ie over 160 chars)

Include sent or received date and time somewhere

Include senders mobile number somewhere

Should

Have customisable subject line (see below)

Have customisable message body

Run on WM5 Smartphone and WM6 Standard

Allow use to select which email account to send from (if more than one configured)

Could

Keep sent email in Sent Items (if device settings require that)

Send messages immediately

Send messages at predefined intervals

Spoof From address if sender in Contacts and has email address

Get and Set the category of the email to the category of the sender (if in Contacts)

Exclude specified senders

Wont

Prompt for user interaction during operation

Rely on a data connection

Brick my device

Subject Line Formula

This is tricky to describe, but it would be nice to be able to specify a formula for the subject line of the outgoing email. Something like these:

“SMS from “ & SMSSendersNumber & “ on “ & SMSSentDate & “ “ & SMSSentTime

“Message from “ & SMSSendersName

Some of this would require that the sender can be identified from Contacts, so it might require a formula for senders in Contacts and one for senders not recognised. Or you could just default the SMSSendersName to SMSSendersNumber and only replace the value if they are in Contacts.

Do you see what I’m trying to get to?

Email Message Body

It’d be very nice to be able to format the message itself.

Something like:

“Message: “ & SMSMessage & chr(13) & “Sender: “ & SMSSendersName & chr(13) & “Sent date/time: “ & SMSSentDate & “ “ & SMSSentTime

[Guest levanter]

A lot of the above where i was heading as well, great ! Thanks for the MOSCOW, all looks totally feasible, you can be beta test no.1 :-)

Blocking the forwarding of delivery reports will be easy. There cerainly isnt any user interaction whilsts its running and it runs in the background fine.

Pocket Outlook will be the way forward, as it can send through any account thats been configured in there anyway, eg, GMAIL, ActiveSync, etc already going to drop the pure SMTP approach.

I need to get the App to drop the GPRS afterwards as its staying up on my device, this will be optional i can see how it would effect some people. Once this is done I'll un-hard code the email addresses etc and make them configurable, then multithread it so it doesnt kill the GUI during execution.

If you are not too bothered about it releasing the GPRS connection then i'll probably be able to send it sooner rather than later. I have received a few SMS messages already today and it happily forward'ed them to my mail address so its working a treat. ;)

Also...if while it was sending the mail it could read incoming mails, then without too much additional effort it could read a specific mail and send as SMS, hence a 2 ways SMS-EMAIL gateway. Useful for me anyway as I cant take my mobile into my place of work but have full access to email. I'll get the one way working first.

Will keep you posted on progress.

n.

[Guest chucky.egg]

Cool,

Email-to-SMS forwarding isn't something I can use much myself, but I know that some people would be interested in an SMS-to-SMS forwarding (allowing you to forward SMS to a different number if you're changing networks without porting your number, for example)

[Guest levanter]

OK

Beta is ready, send me an Personal Message and i'll email the download URL.

Cheers.