From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 18 2:25:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from highland.isltd.insignia.com (highland.isltd.insignia.com [195.74.141.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2905237B404 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 02:25:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from wolf.isltd.insignia.com (wolf.isltd.insignia.com [172.16.1.3]) by highland.isltd.insignia.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1IAPGr29842 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 10:25:16 GMT Received: (from news@localhost) by wolf.isltd.insignia.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA00386 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 10:25:16 GMT From: freebsd-questions-local@insignia.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Email -> SMS Gateway Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 10:25:15 +0000 Message-ID: <4fl17usvf051t1dmnj65rrps15rcu2u6j8@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 20:10:56 +1100, brad@bookandmusicclubs.com.au ("Brad") wrote: >I'm looking to set up an Email -> SMS gateway on my FreeBSD machine. Its >primary use will be to notify a list of mobile phones via SMS if a server >goes down... We currently have scripts written which notify by email, so i >figure we continue using these scripts, and just change the email address to >mobilenumber@foo.bar.com and that sms's the appropriate mobile. > >..i think that makes sense. > >I'm really just after anyone with experience getting this to work. >Suggestions for programs, hardware needed - and i guess most importantly.. >is it possible. We did just this (although it's not in service right now since the person writing the scripts left us just before it was ready to deploy). We used a Siemens M20 GSM terminal, which interfaces via standard serial port, and a Perl script as the email target. It worked fine. I do plan to resurrect this "soon" and will use FreeBSD (the original platform was Solaris). jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message