[TAG] SMS sending S/W

[Jimmy O'Regan]

On 2/28/06, J. Bakshi <j.bakshi at 1net.gr> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> there are some sites which can send  SMS to mobile. Generally these sites send
> SMS based on online operation. there are some microsoft based S/W (limited
> period trial version) too which allow you to compose your messages offline
> and then send it after connecting with the net; just like SMTP :-) [though I
> have not tried anything as my box is debian]
>  BUT is there any such Linux based tool allowing offline SMS composing and
> sending all after getting net connection ??

You've been asking questions here for a while, so this won't come as a
surprise: you need to provide more information :)

Short answer: yes, there is software for Linux that will allow you to
compose and send SMS messages:
http://tuxmobil.org/phones_linux_sms.html

Long answer: In fact, there are three main ways of doing this: via a
web interface, mobile phone, and any GSM capable modem. (There are
other ways; ICQ for Windows, for example, once had a way of sending
SMS via ICQ, but AFAICT that has been discontinued). Heck, you can
even run your own SMS (and WAP) gateway on Linux:
http://www.kannel.org/ or http://smscgw.ccamp.de/

Web interfaces: I mentioned that you needed to provide more
information - which website do you want to use, or, failing that,
which network(s) do you want to send to? These programs are basically
screen scrapers, and need to be aware of the layout of the site you
want to use. smssend (http://zekiller.skytech.org/smssend_menu.html),
for example, can use several operator's websites, as can the Perl
module WWW::SMS (http://search.cpan.org/~eim/WWW-SMS/) - they may not
be configured for the network you want to use, however. SMTP2SMS seems
to be configured for Indian providers, so maybe that's what you want?
https://sourceforge.net/projects/smtp2sms/

If you want to send messages using your mobile:
* Gnokii: http://www.gnokii.org/ (supports Nokia specific features,
though most basic features can be used with any GSM-capable mobile)
* Gammu: http://www.gammu.net/ (Fork of Gnokii, supports some things
Gnokii doesn't)
* KMobileTools: http://kmobiletools.berlios.de/
* Gnome Phone Manager: http://usefulinc.com/software/phonemgr/

Using a GSM modem: I can't find the software I used to use, but GSMlib
(http://www.pxh.de/fs/gsmlib/) provided the functionality it used.

KXicq2 (http://www.kxicq.org/), an ICQ client for KDE, has support for
sending SMS - I'm pretty sure Kopete and Gaim have plugins to do the
same. There's even a project that allows a mobile to be mounted as a
file system (http://www.gammu.net/projects/snofs.php) that is planning
support for sending SMS this way.

HTH