[clug] sms from the command line?

Glen Cunningham glen at exemail.com.au
Wed Nov 16 21:01:59 MST 2011


On Thursday 17 November 2011 11:34:08 Michael Still wrote:
> On 17/11/11 10:32, jm wrote:
> > There are two common ways to do this,
> >
> > 1) use a gsm/umts modem (could be a phone)
> > 2) use an external provider
> >
> > In the case of 1, there is a program (called sms-tools?) that
> > behaves similar to a mail daemon. It will watch a directory for
> > message to send polling once a minute. Any messages you wish to
> > send are simple written as a file to the directory in a simple
> > format. One message per file. When I had to do this I wrote a
> > simple program called smsdrop (named for maildrop) which was setuid
> > to write these files. Don't know if I still have a copy of that
> > program though.
>
> I have just discovered that pennytel allege to have a SMS sending
> API. It costs 5 cents per SMS. I haven't had a play with it yet, but
> it is on the list of things to do...
>
> Mikal

Just to confirm, PennyTel SMS add-on works fine with Firefox on 
Trinity-KDE.
G.

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