[Gllug] E-Mail to SMS Advice

[Richard Jones]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 10:42:12AM +0100, Mario wrote:
> Ideally I would like to send an E-mail similar to:  <mobile 
> number>@sms-gateway.co.uk.  I have found some commercially available 
> services but am interested in finding out about any Linux-based 
> solutions available.
> 
> Any advice from past experiences, specific links to sites that I could 
> use etc. would be appreciated.

In the past (a good 5 years ago now, so there may be better solutions
around), I used smsclient (http://www.smsclient.org/) to send SMS
messages.  It requires a modem, because it actually dials up the SMS
call center to send the message, at an approximate cost of 5-10p per
message.

Rich.

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