On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 16:01 +0100, Andrew Kelly wrote: > On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 14:34 +0100, Manuel Arostegui Ramirez wrote: > > El Miércoles, 20 de Febrero de 2008 14:29, Andrew Kelly escribió: > > > Hi y'all, > > > > > > can any of you recommend a command-line tool for sending an SMS to a > > > cell phone? Half an hour of googl'ing has brought me only outdated, > > > half-finished or modem dependant stuff of little or no value. > > > > > > > I've used gnokii to send sms by using a cell phone plugged in a serial port. > > Try it. > > > > Manuel. > > Hi Manuel, thanks for that tip. Unfortunately, it's not something that > I'll be able to use. This is something I'll be running on remote > machines, that most certainly don't have a cell attached to them. > In a nutshell, the problem is this: My boss is too cheap to provide a > pager server, and my cell phone service provider cannot offer me the > possibility of accepting e-mail on my cell. Basically, all I want to do > is be notified on my cell by any of my servers, should certain > conditions arise. Since I can't send an e-mail to my phone, I'd like to > send and SMS. And I need to be able to script the action, ergo > command-line. I found out quite by accident that my cellular provider has a mail to sms gateway. I sent a text message from my phone to an e-mail address instead of to another phone, and when it came in I could reply to it via e-mail and it would come to the phone as sms. I captured my phone's e-mail address and now my servers send me sms messages all the time. Give it a try, see if it works. Thomas
