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Matrix To MMS-Over-Email Bridge
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Matrix To MMS-Over-Email Bridge
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I made a friend online while locked-down during COVID who I want to continue communicating with. The problem, though, is that I do not use social media, and chat apps do not work for me no matter how hard I try. So after about a month of back-and-forth discussing possible solutions, we’ve thought of something that we think will work well for both of us: I’m going to run a <a href="https://matrix.org/">Matrix</a> to <abbr title="Multimedia Messaging Service (text message)">MMS</abbr>-over-email bridge on my server.
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This series will document the process of getting this to work, both because that’s interesting and because it will help me stay on schedule. What follows is a description of how it’s going to work and more detailed posts about it as I go along.
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Overview
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Sending
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<li>I send a text to the correct contact.
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<li>My phone provider’s email gateway converts that to an email.
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<li>I receive the message on a different server (~team) because my server (smirkingface) cannot receive mail.
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<li>~team checks the sender address to make sure it’s me, then converts it to a Matrix message.
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<li>Then, acting as a Matrix client, ~team sends the message to my friend (<a href="https://theevilskeleton.gitlab.io/">Tesk</a>).
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Receiving
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<li>Tesk sends a message to me on Matix.
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<li>smirkingface, acting as a second Matrix client, reads the message and converts it to a multipart/MIME email message.
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<li>smirkingface sends the message via Postfix to my phone provider’s email gateway.
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<li>The Matrix message appears as a text on my flip phone a few minutes later.
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Details
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That whole thing really breaks down to two parts: getting MMS working over email, and getting Matrix working over email. Here are those parts in more detail:
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<a href="1_mms-over-email.gmi">MMS over email</a>
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<li>Matrix over email (coming soon)
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