[ale] Perl + SMS

[Geoffrey]

Fletch wrote:
>>>>>>"Christopher" == Christopher Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> writes:
> 
> 
>     Christopher> Has anyone here been able to send a message to a SMS
>     Christopher> user via Perl?
> 
> I did at $jobs[-2] to a Nextel phone.  They've got an email gateway
> setup that you just mail to phonenumber at mumble.nextel.com (can't
> remember what the 'mumble' part was, maybe 'mobile') and it'll get to
> the phone.  Check with the service provider in question, as I'm pretty
> sure T-Mobile has something similar so probably they all do.

This is different is it not?  I can receive both email and text messages 
on my phones, sms is almost always faster.  For that matter, if you're 
using the email address of the phone, can't you simply send it via email?

> Baring that, some of them have some sort of web interface that you can
> drive using LWP (or WWW::Mechanize, or what not).

I guess it would be cheating to do something like:

my $retval = `smssend $provider $num $num $data`

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey