From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 1 17:40:31 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: isp@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32E5616A50B for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 17:40:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fcash@ocis.net) Received: from smtp.sd73.bc.ca (smtp.sd73.bc.ca [142.24.13.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8765443D4C for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 17:40:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fcash@ocis.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.sd73.bc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id D880E8A0027 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 10:45:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.sd73.bc.ca ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.sd73.bc.ca [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 24895-01-73 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 10:45:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from webmail.sd73.bc.ca (unknown [10.10.10.17]) by smtp.sd73.bc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59E208A004A for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 10:45:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from webmail.sd73.bc.ca (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by webmail.sd73.bc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69C6A900060A for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 10:40:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 192.168.0.10 (SquirrelMail authenticated user fcash) by webmail.sd73.bc.ca with HTTP; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 10:40:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <55456.192.168.0.10.1149183621.squirrel@webmail.sd73.bc.ca> Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 10:40:21 -0700 (PDT) From: "Freddie Cash" To: isp@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at sd73.bc.ca Cc: Subject: [Fwd: Re: Mass SMS] X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: fcash@ocis.net List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 17:40:34 -0000 On Thu, June 1, 2006 8:24 am, 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'm assuming the SMS messages are going to cell phones. Do the cell providers include an e-mail to SMS gateway? ie, can you send an e-mail to phonenumber@provider.com and have it appear on their cell as a text message? I don't know how things work where you are, but all the cell providers in Canada have this server. Makes things so much simpler. :) All our servers have either Webmin installed locally with the Status module configured to send e-mail to our cell numbers, or are monitored via Nagios with status messages send to our cell numbers. Works so nicely. No special SMS software needed, just an SMTP server. :) ---- Freddie Cash fcash@ocis.net