At 03:20 PM 11/7/01 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>I have compiled the stable release, 1.0.3, on a Sun Ultra 5 running
>Solaris 8 using a Siemens M20T on /dev/ttyb and it sends
>messages very well :-)


go with the CVS version

>My question is this:
>ideally I want to send SMS from a variety of feeds;
>
>1 - drop file (i.e. placing a text message in a particular directory
>and polling this and sending the file contents via SMS every so
>often)


just write a simple script running on a cron job to take the file, parse it 
and pass it onto kannel.


>2 - email (i.e. have a mechanism for capturing emails and using
>kannel to send them using SMS)

yup.. see the contrib directory. You set this up with sms-service



>Is there any way I can configure kannel to understand the above
>(maybe using SMS services?) or at least is there a way of issuing
>SMS from the command line (other than using lynx)?


write a shell script to call lynx. I am busy on a direct socket type 
connnection to smsbox, but this wont be available until next year.


>Also, is there a way to receive SMS as well ?

yup.. you can receive messages..



>The scenario I am working on is trapping system alerts from a
>network operations centre and, out of hours, using SMS to inform
>whomever is on duty.  The management software can only raise
>alerts as emails however, hence the need for an email or drop
>directory approach (I don't really want to start writing perl to glue
>the mail system to the http interface unless I really have to).


what email servers are you using..

nisan


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