Mass SMS

Vince Hoffman jhary at unsane.co.uk
Fri Jun 2 09:25:20 PDT 2006



On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, Odhiambo Washington wrote:

>
> I have a few hundred VIP clients (yes, some are more VIP than others)
> who I'd like to notify, via SMS, whenever we have any network problem
> and also immediately such a
> problem is resolved.
>
> What I'm looking for is some software that I can use to do this,
> within FreeBSD. I hope one of the experts in this area has done
> one so I don't have to wait for the invention.
> `make search key=sms` from within the ports did give some apps,
> but I did not see one that is capable of looking at a database
> of contact numbers and sending that one sms to all of them.
> Of course I do expect a reply/delivery report after sending the sms.
>
> Any good pointers will be appreciated.
>

I have used smstools for similar (with procmail to make an email-sms 
gateway,) and I know gnokii has similar functionality (my new employer 
uses it with an old nokia gsm phone (not sure about 
reply/delivery report though)


Vince

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