On 02/27/2019 02:22 PM, Dave Stevens wrote:
Hi,
Hi Dave,
I've been using mailman to send routine announcements for a long time and more and more what people want is a text message. I've been able to discover gateways for individual carriers so that I can send to <number>@<gateway>.<carrier>.com and the subscriber gets a text, so phone notification which is quick and handy. This has been well received.I've been looking at the list of carriers getting longer and have looked into email to sms services but what I've seen has been commercial and too expensive.Is there a collaborative or open source email to sms project? Can anyone refer me to better information? I've been pretty much just casting around so far.
I don't think I've seen a collaborative or open source email to SMS project. I suspect this is because of the technical nature of gatewaying and / or the cost associated with doing so, be it infrastructure or per message.
The only free services that I've seen have been operated by the cellular networks for their customers.
The other commercial services have all had cell phones (or other similar devices that interface with the cellular network like a phone) and end up sending lots of texts.
I don't see how to overcome either of these limitations. Maybe there is a way.
I feel like sending text message is beyond the scope of what a mailing list manager should do. If some of the subscribed addresses happen to be email address that are subsequently gatewayed, so be it.
If you really want to look into something to send SMS (or MMS) messages in bulk, I'd look at something in parallel with Mailman. Let Mailman do what it's good at, email, and use something else for SMS (MMS).
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