MMail: E-Mailing SMS messages |
You can easily send a SMS message by sending a special e-mail message to a SMS Gateway. Some mobile carriers may offer free Email-To SMS gateways which can be used to forward simple text emails to a mobile phones. See these pages:
If you do not find any free Email-To SMS gateway, you may look for some fee Email-To SMS gateway. Fee gateways usually provide you with a user-ID and a password to be specified on your e-mail message. They also provide you with a small number of free SMS to be used for initial testing. The way your e-mail message should be formatted depends on the requirements of the Email-To SMS gateway, and you should carefully look for them. One obvious requirement (that no one ever mentions) is that, in the e-mail message, the SMS text must always be preceded by two CarriageReturnLineFeed strings (x'0D25'). This is the standard delimiter used both in HTML and in mail messages to signal the end of the script headers or EOH (In mail messages, standard headers are: FROM, TO, SUBJECT, REPLY-TO, etc.). The trouble with Email-To SMS gateways is that you have to write your own program to generate an e-mail message complying with the standards requested by your favorite SMS gateway. However, that is not too difficult, if you make use of some existing subprocedures provided in service program MMAIL/SENDMAIL. MMAIL provides a number of programs for some fee Email-To SMS gateways. MMAIL provided utilities to interface fee Email-To SMS gateways: Note -Shlould you need a different command/program to e-mail messages to another SMS gateway of your choice, just let us know:
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When you register on SMS gateway Clickatell,
you specify your desired user-name user-name and receive a password and an account-ID. In this case the e-mail message generating an SMS message should be
Command MMAIL/EMLSMS1 provides exactly the above e-mail message and sends it to sms@messaging.clickatell.com:
2. E-mail SMS message to gateway SubitoSMS.it When you register on SMS gateway SubitoSMS.it, you specify your desired user-name and receive a password. In this case the e-mail message generating an SMS message should be
You may use command MMAIL/EMLSMSIT1 to build and send such an e-mail message:
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