| name | notify-me |
| description | Sending messages "to me" (notifications) using sendmail on this dotfiles/NixOS setup. The sendmail command is backed by telegram-sendmail, which delivers to the user's Telegram. Use for "send X to me", notifications, results, tests. Triggers: sendmail, send to me, notify me, notify-me, message to self, banana.
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notify-me
Here, sendmail is wrapped by telegram-sendmail. Mail ends up in Telegram, not a mailbox.
Command
Use the wrapper binary:
/run/wrappers/bin/sendmail << 'ENDMAIL'
Subject: Short descriptive title
From: grok@whiterun
To: lucas59356@gmail.com
Message body here.
Multi-line is fine.
Keep it mostly ASCII to avoid UTF-8 queue issues.
ENDMAIL
sendmail on PATH is usually the same wrapper.To: (and argv recipients) are mostly ignored; delivery goes to the configured Telegram chat.- Success prints
OK (enqueued for the daemon).
One-liner:
printf 'Subject: test\n\nbanana\n' | /run/wrappers/bin/sendmail
Prefer a heredoc for anything longer.
Repo wiring
services.telegram-sendmail.enable = true on riverwood and whiterun- module:
nix/nodes/common/services/telegram_sendmail.nix
- creds:
secrets/telegram_sendmail.env (sops; MAIL_TELEGRAM_TOKEN, MAIL_TELEGRAM_CHAT)
- other callers:
nix/nodes/common/services/cloud-savegame.nix, bin/qrun
- identity in
flake.nix: user lucasew, email lucas59356@gmail.com
When the user wants a ping
- Minimal message with a clear
Subject.
- Pipe or heredoc into
/run/wrappers/bin/sendmail.
- Say it went out via sendmail (Telegram).
Skip mail / mutt / msmtp unless they ask. sendmail is the path here.
