Sending SMS only to yourself is an altogether different
story.
It requires a script. I will run some tests next week when I get a mo and
let you know.
:o)
best...
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Angus Jordan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "DBMail mailinglist" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 12:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Dbmail] New Mail SMS Notification
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
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