Description

This program allows to make a two-way gateway between your WhatsApp account and your email address.

This means that this program:

(1) Will receive your WhatsApp messages and forward them to your email address AND
(2) It will forward emails in your IMAP/POP3 (or with SMTP/LMTP) directly to WhatsApp.

Install

You will need to install yowsup and the dependencies:

    pip install yowsup2 python-axolotl parse

Then to configure this app, copy and edit the config file in YAML:

    cp config.yaml.example config.yaml
    edit whatsapp_config

In your config.yaml, change fields as necessary:

reply: The email address template that's used to reply to WhatsApp messages forwarded by email, for example: myaccount+{}@gmail.com . Note that the {} is replaced by the destination phone number.
whatsapp: Section containing WhatsApp credentials
phone: Your phone number using the international format (2 numbers), then your local number without the leading zero, eg: 41791234567
password: Your WhatsApp password, you should have it already or you need to register, read: tgalal/yowsup#195 (comment)
ingoing: Configures where are the messages you write that should be forwarded to WhatsApp. This program will connect through IMAP or POP3 (or can listen as a standalone SMTP server).
with: IMAP or POP3 or SMTP or LMTP
(look at config.yaml.example for the rest of details)
outgoing: Configures where are delivered the received WhatsApp messages to (currently only support: forward by email).
with: SMTP # only possible value for now
host: SMTP server address
port: SMTP server port
user: SMTP username to auth (can be empty)
pass: SMTP password to auth (can be empty)
sendto: Address which receives the WhatsApp messages
ssl: 1 or 0 to toggle to connect with SSL
force_starttls: 1 or 0 to toggle force STARTSSL at connection time