Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
Since we were talking about the groupware thing, and Googles SMS
appointment reminder, I was wondering about implementing it without
using Google.
The obvious way is to use viCQ to send messages, but then you are letting
possibly confidential details out without knowing it. For example, your
wife and children's names (which make many a password), birthdays, business
associates, etc. Perhaps you are client number 8?
My second choice is the screen scraping sendsms scripts, which I no longer
use. I have no idea if they still work. I went to vICQ, but never use it
either, I come from an "SMS challenged" enviornment. :-)
To me the best choice is via a Bluetooth phone. Then you send your message
directly over your cellular phone network which reduces the number of
hands in the process and your SP is legally bound to some confidentiality.
My wife has a Nokia cell phone with a bluetooth connection to her PC.
Using Nokia PC Suite one can use it to send SMSs.
Is there a program to do it from Linux?
I understand it is not free, but if you are doing this on a company wide
basis, you can negotiate cheaper or free SMS service from your cellular
phone company.
Geoff.
There's Wammu [1], which is the wxWidgets frontend (one of several) to
Gammu [2]. I use it to backup the phone via bluetooth. Tested sending
SMS with Wammu via bluetooth, English worked, Hebrew sent as ???? (could
be problem with the receiving phone).
Gammu has bindings for python and ruby.
[1] http://wammu.eu/
[2] http://www.gammu.org/
[3]
http://www.gammu.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gammu:Main_Page#Third_party_-_bindings
Cheers
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Meir Kriheli
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