nicolasalbert/gmail-forwarder repository overview

⁠GMAIL Forwarder

This project allow to automatically forward emails that arrive in a particular GMAIL IMAP folder to a list of recipients. Motivation: allow to transfer email without configuring the email forward feature of GMAIL and also works for email created by API (not the case for the GMAIL forward feature).

⁠DOCKER usage

The configuration comes from environment variables, no configuration file needed.

docker run --name gmail-forwarder -d -e USERNAME=gmailaccount -e PASSWORD=gmailpassword -e [email protected] nicolasalbert/gmail-forwarder

⁠GRADLE usage

Same as DOCKER, configuration is read from environment variables. Once done, via your shell or a script, just launch the application.

gradlew run

⁠CONFIGURATION

Here the list of environment variable used:

• USERNAME: mandatory GMAIL account that receive emails
• PASSWORD: mandatory GMAIL account's password or access key
• TO: mandatory recipient email (use , to set many)
• FOLDER: folder to watch for new email, default is the Inbox
• SENDER: if the sender of an email matches (find) this regular expression, the email can be forwarded
• SUBJECT: if the subject of an email matches (find) this regular expression, the email can be forwarded