Introduction

Let msn.class.php always online, work as a bot.

Details

• Create some folder like:

mkdir /var/spool/msnbot
mkdir /var/spool/msnbot/log
mkdir /var/spool/msnbot/spool
mkdir /var/spool/msnbot/backup

• Change the attribute for spool folder:

chmod 777 /var/spool/msnbot/spool
chmod o+t /var/spool/msnbot/spool

• put msnbot.php, msn.class.php, config.php to /var/spool/msnbot/, then make msnbot.php executable:

chmod +x /var/spool/msnbot/msnbot.php

• update your account in config.php

// your MSN login account
$msn_acct = 'YOUR_MSN_ACCOUNT';
// your MSN password
$msn_password = 'YOUR_MSN_PASSWORD';
// your alias name for MSN
$msn_alias = 'YOUR_MSN_ALIAS';
// notify list when someone add us to their list or remove us from their list
// after domain, you can assign @n to specify the network of this email,
// where @1 is for MSN (yes, if no @1, also for MSN)
//       @32 is for Yahoo
$aNotifyUser = array('MSN_ACCOUNT1@1',
                     'MSN_ACCOUNT2',
                     'YAHOO_ACCOUNT@32');

• Write your customize function as processMsg(), addContact, removeContact() in msnbot.php

• Use msnbot.sh as your startup script to execute msnbot after system startup.

#! /bin/sh
#
# MSN bot
#

NAME=msnbot
DESC="MSN bot"

set -e

case "$1" in
  start)
	echo -n "Starting $DESC: $NAME"
	/var/spool/msnbot/msnbot.php
	echo "."
	;;
  stop)
	echo -n "Stopping $DESC: $NAME"
    MSNPID=`cat /var/spool/msnbot/log/msnbot.pid`
	kill $MSNPID
	echo "."
	;;
  restart|force-reload)
	$0 stop
	sleep 1s
	$0 start
	;;
  *)
	N=/etc/init.d/$NAME
	echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2
	exit 1
	;;
esac

exit 0

• When you need to send message to someone, you can create a text file in /var/spool/msnbot/spool, filename end with '.msn', then change the attribute to 0666.

• The '.msn' file format:

TO: someone@hotmail,somone@yahoo.com@32
Your message here
2nd line

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