* Graham
I used an internet service very successfully. The company was called Redcoal www.redcoal.com (http://www.redcoal.com) and you didn’t need any programming skills The solution wasn’t very elegant but worked extremely well. You simply send an email alert to <mobile number>@redcoal.com and it turns it into an SMS message Not used it for a while but from memory they cost about 3p a message if you purchase a job lot of texts up front. Will also send to groups of users with one email. Worked very well for me. Jim Wallace From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Graham Brown Sent: 01 March 2011 09:01 To: Servers Alive Discussion List Subject: [SA-list] SMS Alerting and alternatives I know - this comes up a lot... Well, I never got it to work reliably here in the UK. I have tried Vodafone, Three, O2 - have tried with phone attached to the PC, with a standard modem and no dice. I either get nothing at all or it'll work sporadically. So, how can I achieve this? I thought maybe there would be a way of using the Skype SMS service. Has anyone written a custom alert for their own use they would like to share? I'm afraid I don't have programming skills as I saw several docs on how to programmatically send SMS messages via skype and if I could I would create something myself. I saw a post back in 2008 from Dirk about a voice calling service from Skype client - that would be cool as my ringtone is more noticeable than my txt message notification. Any ideas? Thanks Graham To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line to [email protected] If you use auto-responders (like out-of-the-office messages), make sure that they are not sent to the list nor to individual members. Doing so will cause you to be automatically removed from the list. ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line to [email protected] If you use auto-responders (like out-of-the-office messages), make sure that they are not sent to the list nor to individual members. Doing so will cause you to be automatically removed from the list.
