email-to-telegram 1.0.1

Forwards mail from mail file to Telegram chat.

Email to Telegram

A telegram bot that reads a mailbox file and forwards it to a Telegram chat. This can 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/role-email-to-telegram

Installation

pip3 install .

Configuration

Copy config.def.ini to /etc/email-to-telegram/config.ini and edit it.

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-bot
After=network.target

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

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target