Install latest/stable of signal-cli-gael
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sudo snap install signal-cli-gael
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# [signal-cli-gael](https://snapcraft.io/signal-cli-gael)
This is NOT an original piece of work, just a snap of signal-cli
Signal-cli is a commandline interface for the Signal messenger. It supports registering, verifying, sending and receiving messages. signal-cli uses a patched libsignal-service-java, extracted from the Signal-Android source code. For registering you need a phone number where you can receive SMS or incoming calls.
Signal-cli is primarily intended to be used on servers to notify admins of important events. For this use-case, it has a daemon mode with D-BUS interface (man page) and JSON-RPC interface (documentation).
First-time users
Read the doc at https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/blob/master/man/signal-cli.1.adoc on how to get started.
Configure automatic message reception every 4 hours
sudo vi /var/snap/signal-cli-gael/current/signal-cli-receive.options
``` --timeout 20 --ignore-attachments --send-read-receipts ```
sudo snap start --enable signal-cli-gael.signal-cli-receive
Configure signal-cli as a sendmail replacement
sudo vi /var/snap/signal-cli-gael/current/signal-cli-from-stdin.options
``` <<DESTINATION_ACOUNT>> ```
sudo vi /usr/sbin/sendmail2signal
``` #!/bin/bash
signal-cli-gael.signal-cli-from-stdin ```
sudo chmod 755 sendmail2signal
sudo ln -s /usr/sbin/sendmail2signal /usr/sbin/sendmail
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