Automator - IM to e-mail

Is there a way to trigger an action when an IM is received through iChat? What I would like to do is set something up that would send a text message to my phone when an IM is received and I am not at my computer. I'm not too concerned with what is contained in that e-mail. I just want to understand how to trigger an action first - if that is even possible. If there is an application or Automator action that exists already, that would be great but I don't mind putting this together myself. Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

Sending a plain text email to an individual person via an HTML form is a relatively easy task for PHP.
However, when you want to send bulk HTML emails via PHP, things can get hairy.
HTML only emails tend to get higher spam score in anti-spam softwares, such as Spamassassin. For that reason, you should consider to include both plain text and HTML versions; which requires a bit more programming, and some knowledge about how email headers work.
Servers tend to be cautious about sending bulk emails in short amount of time. So you might want to create a PHP script, that reads users' emails, say, 10 at a time and sends the email automatically. And you can create a cron job or scheduled task to perform this in every hour, until the email list exhausted.
If you are willing to learn, and want to do it by yourself, you can start by reading:
PEAR Mail
Zend Mail
Or if you are going to do this from now on, you should consider to buy a bulk email sender software, like Email Brain

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