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