When at Amoco in an era gone by, we set up a small Sun IPX machine to be an SMS gateway. It had a modem on it that was used to call the local AT&T SMS access point to send messages. Messages were short (140 char or so) but enough to tell admins servers were full or down, etc. We also had some command line tools that would ICMP to the gateway server with the destination phone number(s) or a distribution list name, and the message. Sweet, simple, reliable, but not reliable enough to bet my job on it. In those days SMS worked going to text pagers (yes children, there was a day before phones had SMS capability).
I know there are some SMS network gateways out there on the 'net. The easy to find ones are the pay to message sites. Google Voice does SMS incoming and outgoing, so there is bound to be an 'app for that' <sorry> or a small tool chest available. ><> ... Jack Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart... Colossians 3:23 "If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the precipitate" - Henry J. Tillman "Anyone who has never made a mistake, has never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein "You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people." - Admiral Grace Hopper, USN Life is complex: it has a real part and an imaginary part. - Martin Terma On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Howard White <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey guys, > > We are sick and tired of ~!@#$% with email security issues (and yet none of > us want spam or worse). Now, we need our application to be able to send > notifications users via SMS. No, we're not trying to spam the world with > advert texts. We will explicitly catalog those endpoints that require > notification for specific events that the users will be looking for. > > Okay, for starts ya gotta bridge the network/internet pipe to the cellphone > pipe. There are plenty of places that will do this for a nominal fee - > $0.01 per text. In the market we're dealing with, that's the price of doing > business. > > Lot's of places are setting up SMS alerts. Anybody got the under-the-hood > how-to-get-there? > > Howard > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
