Thanks for the reply. On 5/1/06, M. J. [Mike] OBrien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello Angus: DBMail can handle your mission but the Short Message Service (SMS) cannot be used directly by anyone except a carrier. DBMail will auto reply. DBMail development version will accept [EMAIL PROTECTED] and you can autoreply with DBMail on the mail to user or in the case of sieve scripts, mail to mailbox or user. Several possibilities in other words. DBMail current *2.1-dev* sieve-capable variant is nearing release as V2.2 Stable hopefully in summer as I understand it but stay tuned.
So I would need to upgrade from 2.0.x to 2.1 (or 2.2 when it's available) for this to work at all? Someone said in an earlier mail to this list something about setting up my MTA (Exim) to do this. Does that sound like a possibility? That said, you may have some misconceptions about SMS. Carriers capable of
converting SMTP-to-SMS will receive, convert and pass along mail messages usually with the "C"-phone full number as user @ a subdomain of the carrier's TLD. Some carriers pass the message directly (160 char limit) and other send a signal to the user's device asking them to connect to the service to fetch the message for a small fee. There are other arrangements that can be made like codewrapper on message sent to a server on a specified port which cause the SMS message to be sent directly from the carrier's server to the recipient's device. You must make arrangements with the service providers on a per-carrier basis in the region you wish to do this within. The aspect of Short Message Service you are interested in is called Point to Point (SMS-PP) and is currently somewhat defined in Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) recommendation 03.40. This is not to be confused with GSM 03.41 which defines the Short Message Service - Cell Broadcast (SMS-CB) allowing messages (i.e.:ads, public information, emerg stuff and so on) to be broadcast to all mobile users in a specified geographical area. In either case messages are sent via a store-and-forward mechanism to a Short Message Service Centre (SMSC) specific to the wireless phone service provider, which will then attempt to send the message to the customer and possibly retry if not reachable.
I have SMS on my cell phone, I am able to send messages to it via the smssend software (Freebsd port misc/smssend) without charge from my phone company (Rogers in Canada). It works just fine, as I use it for Nagios notifications currently. The ideal solution for me would be to have my DBMail / MTA server monitor which email address mail is being delivered to and then run an external script that captures and sends the Subject, and From headers out to that script which would in turn formulate an SMS message and send it to my cell (or IM, or whatever I would like it to be sent to). Hope that clarifies things a little. Thanks, Angus Jordan
