Email-to-mobile hack
Not!
I was scheming a quick-and-dirty email-to-SMS hack:
- Send email notifications to my vanity mail address. Tag it “sms”.
- Create a filter that forwards mails tagged “sms” to 63xxxxxxxxxx@chikkatalk.com
- As we all know, @chikkatalk.com is Chikka’s federated XMPP server. So… mails should then be received in my mobile phone.
Easy does it, right? Well, not. Chikkatalk.com is indeed an XMPP server, but not a mail server:
[iandexter@hiraya ~]$ dig mx chikkatalk.com ; < <>> DiG 9.2.5 < <>> mx chikkatalk.com ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER< <- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 32086 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;chikkatalk.com. IN MX ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: chikkatalk.com. 10503 IN SOA ns1.chikka.com. » hostmaster.chikka.com.com. 2006060100 3600 600 604810 86400 ;; Query time: 2 msec ;; SERVER: 192.168.1.101#53(192.168.1.101) ;; WHEN: Fri Oct 27 00:53:32 2006 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 101 [iandexter@hiraya ~]$
Eep. Stupid me. 
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