Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 10:40:21 -0700 (PDT) From: "Freddie Cash" <fcash@ocis.net> To: isp@freebsd.org Subject: [Fwd: Re: Mass SMS] Message-ID: <55456.192.168.0.10.1149183621.squirrel@webmail.sd73.bc.ca>
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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
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