email-to-telegram 1.1.2

Telegram bot that reads a mail file and forwards to Telegram chat

Email to Telegram

Telegram bot that reads a mail file and forwards to Telegram chat. It has to be paired up with a mail server such as Postfix. It can handle forwarding image attachments that are PNG or JPG.

An Ansible role is available. https://github.com/ItsNotGoodName/ansible-role-email-to-telegram

Installation

pip install email-to-telegram

Configuration

Copy and edit config.def.ini to one of the following paths.

• /etc/email-to-telegram/config.ini
• config.ini

You can get the chat_id from the web version of Telegram. https://stackoverflow.com/a/45577773

Example systemd service file

[Unit]
Description=Starts email-to-telegram
After=network.target

[Service]
User=telegram
ExecStart=email-to-telegram
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5s

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target