Introduction

Quite often when I am out and about, I'm not able to connect to Jabber. It is usually much more likely I can access my email though (whether via the web, or a mobile client).

For this reason I decided it would be extremely useful to have Jabber messages sent to me while I was offline forwarded to my email inbox.

Usage

Simply add "offline_email" to your modules_enabled list. When any user receives a message while they are offline, it will automatically be forwarded via mail to the same address as their Jabber ID. e.g. user1@example.com's offline messages will be forwarded to user1@example.com's email inbox.

Configuration

queue_offline_emails	The number of seconds to buffer messages for, before they are sent as an email. The default is to send each message as it arrives.
smtp_server	Address of the SMTP server to send through. Default 'localhost' (recommended, see caveats below)
smtp_username	If set, Prosody will authenticate with the SMTP server before sending (default is no authentication)
smtp_password	The password for the above user (default is none)
smtp_from	Address from which it will appear the emails came. Default is smtp_username@smtp_server, where smtp_username is replaced with 'xmpp' if not set

Compatibility

0.6	Works
0.5	Should work

Caveats/Todos/Bugs

Currently SMTP sending blocks the whole server. This should not be noticable if your mail server is on the same machine as Prosody.
There is not (yet) any way to configure forwarding to an email address other than your JID (idea... use email address in vcard?)
Enable/disable this feature per user?

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