Galarun

Hello, I'm trying to send text messages to mobile phones from my computer and I'm trying to do so without buying any components from third parties. My goal is simple, to send a text message to a series of phones whenever one of our sites go down. This is all we're going to use it for so obviously we would like to do it without any extra pieces of software, etc. Does anybody have any ideas on how to accomplish this? Maybe point me in the direction of some code or just an idea of how to do it? I don't care what I need to download or anything, I just want to do it without signing up or purchasing anything (I'm an intern anyway) so any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

Infinite Recursion

Welcome to the forums...

You could always send emails to their cell phone... most cellular companies have the ability to receive text messages by way of emails. For instance, I email 1234567890@cellularsouth.com and my words show up as a text message on that person's phone.

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Galarun

Are you sure about that? I thought that they would be sent to you as an email and that you would have to log in to see it (not a text message). That would make sense because text messages usually cost money, so sending an email to a phone that would appear as a text message sounds improbable. Either way, I tried it and I didn't receive the text message. Do you know of a server of some sorts that I can use for free that will send a text message to a phone if I send them an email of it?

BlazingWolf

If you want to send an SMS you need an SMS gateway which will charge you per message.

A friend and I have looked into this before and we could not find a free way to do it.

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Infinite Recursion

I send my girlfriend an email to hernumber@cellularsouth.com and she receives it as a text message. If you send an email with a header, usually the message body exceeds the length constraints of the text message system and it returns in an empty or invalid message and is not displayed on the remote side.

Yes, text messages cost money... if you do this it would be wise to get a call plan that provides sufficient text messaging quotas. Or pay .10 cents a message (per my carrier, Cingular Wireless).


Here is the site I use to send her messages... sometimes I send headerless emails as well.

https://prodsms.cellularsouth.com/Te...or=yellowgreen

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Kami

I have a script running which I wrote using VB Script which parses through my email and, if it meets all the requirements (sender in address list, no attachments, etc) it will send a text notification to my cell phone. Then I can choose to access the full email using my PDA. This is my work around to not spending the rediculous blackberry costs. But yes, my cell provider converts emails to text messages, which I can receive for free. Not sure if all providers do the same.