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SMS
StatusNet supports a cheap-and-dirty system for sending update messages to mobile phones and for receiving updates from the mobile. Instead of sending through the SMS network itself, which is costly and requires buy-in from the wireless carriers, it simply piggybacks on the email gateways that many carriers provide to their customers. So, SMS configuration is essentially email configuration.
Each user sends to a made-up email address, which they keep a secret. Incoming email that is "From" the user's SMS email address, and "To" the users' secret email address on the site's domain, will be converted to a notice and stored in the DB.
For this to work, there must be a domain or sub-domain for which all (or most) incoming email can pass through the incoming mail filter.
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Run the SQL script carrier.sql in your StatusNet database. This will usually work:
mysql -u "statusnetuser" --password="statusnetpassword" statusnet < db/carrier.sql
This will populate your database with a list of wireless carriers that support email SMS gateways.
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Make sure the maildaemon.php file is executable:
chmod +x scripts/maildaemon.php
Note that "daemon" is kind of a misnomer here; the script is more of a filter than a daemon.
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Edit /etc/aliases on your mail server and add the following line:
*: /path/to/statusnet/scripts/maildaemon.php
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Run whatever code you need to to update your aliases database. For many mail servers (Postfix, Exim, Sendmail), this should work:
newaliases
You may need to restart your mail server for the new database to take effect.
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Set the following in your config.php file:
$config['mail']['domain'] = 'yourdomain.example.net';