Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 14:37:57 +1000 From: Stanley Hopcroft <Stanley.Hopcroft@IPAustralia.gov.au> To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: E-mail to SMS and vice versa Message-ID: <20010612143756.H99062@IPAustralia.Gov.AU> In-Reply-To: <10F29E27A956D511B0940050DA8D86A908F586@chat.dagupan.com>; from francisv@dagupan.com on Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 12:20:23PM %2B0800 References: <10F29E27A956D511B0940050DA8D86A908F586@chat.dagupan.com>
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Dear Sir, I am writing to thank you for your letter and say that On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 12:20:23PM +0800, francisv@dagupan.com wrote: > Hi, > > We're planning to make use of GSM in our operation for transmitting alert > messages to system administrators from a monitoring station to a SMS gateway > with a GSM phone connected to it. Is there a how-to out there that outlines > what needs to be done? to the best of my knowledge there is not a howto for email to GSM and vica versa for FreeBSD. Here is my experience with using SMS notifications from the wonderful Netsaint product (http://www.Netsaint.ORG.) to alert people about failures in infrastructure and applications. We use the Phillipe Andersons Open Source SMSLink (http://smslink.sourceforge.net/) in conjunction with a local provider (Vodafone) and a WaveCom WM 02 GSM modem (neat boxes: can be used to access a box when lanlines have failed) to send messages via a home brew Email SMS gateway (invoked by Sendmail for addresses with .page suffixes. The gateway strips mail headers and maps username to SMS phone number via a hash tied to an LDAP directory.). SMSlink is a nice product but it depends on a Linx product called libmodem that works less well on FreeBSD (and maybe Linux AFAIK) because it consistently reports open errors when more than one sending process is trying to use the modem. In practise this means that sending under heavy load conditions is not as good as it could be. SMSLink also provides an inbound SMS -> Email facility but I have no experience with that. Thank you, Yours sincerely. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stanley Hopcroft IP Australia Network Specialist +61 2 6283 3189 +61 2 6281 1353 (FAX) Stanley.Hopcroft@IPAustralia.Gov.AU ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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