For various reasons, I'd like to get a summary of new mail in my IM client. Since I use a traditional mail server with procmail support, and also operate a Jabber (XMPP) IM server, I decided to whip up a small python script to accomplish this. I used a Python XMPP library called xmpppy.

For what it's worth, I use the excellent Openfire Jabber/XMPP server software from folks at Jive Software. It's dead simple to install and configure, and a refreshing change from the bad old days of hacking away at jabberd. The basic version is free and open source, and Jive has recently announced that the enterprise version (which includes advanced features like reporting and logging) will become free and open source later this month.

Here's the script and a link to the required library:

• mailjab.py
• xmpppy - this library is required to run mailjab.py