Hi Alister... Sending sms messages are pretty simple, you can open up a socket connection with the provider, but the most important thing is that you require a sms provider e.g. Vodaphone, and Vodaphone actually have a webtotext engine that you can license. You get slightly cheaper sms' from memory, and their engine basically provides you with an interface to send the sms through.
Note, to the best of my knowledge, you cannot send sms' without having an account such as this. There are some freebies around the world, but assuming that you need something reliable and don't want half your sms' to go missing, you are better off choosing one of the local solutions. Also interested to know if you get the mechanism working from within delphi. If you need any help, let me know. Regards, Matt. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alister Christie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 1:33 PM Subject: Re: [DUG] email, fax and text > For faxing you could use Async Pro (available on sourceforge). > Emailing can be done in a large number of ways but Indy has some good > email components. > I don't know anything much about text messaging but if you find > something I'd be interested in knowing about it ;-) > > Alister Christie > Computers for People > Phone: 04 471 1849 / Fax: 04 471 1266 > PO Box 13085 > Johnsonville > Wellington > > > Laurie Bisman wrote: > > I have a need to send messages to email, fax and text from a database > > app. I can build an email and activate IE, but this isn't what I want. I > > want to send these messages directly. > > > > Anyone know how to do this for email, fax and text messages? - if so, > > can you point me in the right direction. > > > > Laurie Bisman.. > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Delphi mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > _______________________________________________ > Delphi mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > > > _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
