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From: jesbox on 9 Jun 2010 09:18
In a recent thread my struggles to send email have been exposed (and
thanks for supporting answers). Well, I would also like to try sending
SMS.

Do you have some recommendations for resources that may make that
happen with a bit less effort?
From: Paul Cager on 9 Jun 2010 12:01
On Jun 9, 2:18 pm, jesbox <jesb...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> In a recent thread my struggles to send email have been exposed (and
> thanks for supporting answers). Well, I would also like to try sending
> SMS.
>
> Do you have some recommendations for resources that may make that
> happen with a bit less effort?

I believe some telco providers will let you do this for free (or at
least they used to). I use a paid-for service http://www.txtlocal.co.uk/developers/code/
.. The Java code on that page works fine.

Alternatively you can use a mail-to-text gateway (again I don't know
of a free one). But of course you have to get email working first....
From: Arne Vajhøj on 9 Jun 2010 20:08
On 09-06-2010 09:18, jesbox wrote:
> In a recent thread my struggles to send email have been exposed (and
> thanks for supporting answers). Well, I would also like to try sending
> SMS.
>
> Do you have some recommendations for resources that may make that
> happen with a bit less effort?

That is usually a service you buy.

You find a provider that charge you a small amount per
message and give you an API to send with.

A decade ago the API was typical email, but today
it is usually HTTP.

Anyway - easy to do in Java.

Arne

From: Jim Janney on 10 Jun 2010 11:33
jesbox <jesboxx(a)gmail.com> writes:

> In a recent thread my struggles to send email have been exposed (and
> thanks for supporting answers). Well, I would also like to try sending
> SMS.
>
> Do you have some recommendations for resources that may make that
> happen with a bit less effort?

Most cell phone companies provide email to SMS bridges. For example,
for T-Mobile sending a (short) email to

9761234567(a)tmomail.net

sends an SMS to (976) 123-4567 (which I hope is not a real number).
The exact format varies with the provider, so you have to know that in
advance.

--
Jim Janney
From: Lew on 11 Jun 2010 16:52
On 06/10/2010 11:33 AM, Jim Janney wrote:
> Most cell phone companies provide email to SMS bridges. For example,
> for T-Mobile sending a (short) email to
>
> 9761234567(a)tmomail.net
>
> sends an SMS to (976) 123-4567 (which I hope is not a real number).

(976) 555-4567

--
Lew
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