Hello:

I do not know much about 'text messaging' so please forgive the naiveness of this post, given this day and age.

Do I just use my email client or is there a specific app for sending text messages to someone's cell phone from Slackware?

Thanks,

Hello,

I came across a few links for you:
http://blogs.igalia.com/eocanha/?p=77
http://www.developershome.com/sms/smsLinux.asp
http://www.linuxjournal.com/video/se...hout-cellphone

There are quite a few other resources out there, but I'm not sure which direction you are trying to go with this.

Cheers,

Josh

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Whatever you use, it will either require a physical connection to a mobile phone or registration with a third party provider.

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Rob there is sms servers.

What is it exactly you are trying to accomplish?

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Not entirely true.

You can set a sms server if you know your own credentials set by your carrier.

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With Telus in Canada, you can send text messages by email: [phone number]@[specific telus address I can't remember] - used to do it with people all the time.

Figured it out because they used to have a webpage that you could send messages to Telus customers from. Did some digging, found out it was an email address.

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Yeap... same goes for tmobile and other us carriers.

Hi SeRi@lDiE:

I may be getting in over my head on this...

I know that you can use your email client, if you use the person's phone number '@' the persons provider, as suggested.

I was wondering if there was a way to just use someone's cell phone number, as I do on my cell phone, to send a message.

I think, from reading the posts here, that text messaging is a 'cell phone to cell phone' thing and not a 'Slackware over the internet to cell phone' thing.

Sorry for being so 'technically challenged'.

ok than as posted before this wont be possible. Though you can send msgs to a cell phone that will be delivered as form of sms using your slackware system. Is called an sms gateway.

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I've done this a couple of ways:

Old way was to plug in my mobile to my laptop and use either wammu or gammu
echo "$data" | gammu sendsms TEXT $num -save -folder 4 -len $len

gammu and wammu are both on slackbuilds.org

My current way is that I signed up for an account with a bulk sms service (mediaburst) and use a perl script to send texts. They have some example scripts for their api which you can try and customize a bit.

So now I just do 'sms <name>' which opens vim for me to write text in. Closing and saving vim will send it off, and save a copy in ~/mail/sms.

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I discovered that I can use my 'Google Voice' account to send SMS messages to any of my contacts, very easily.

It does not require that I know the cell phone service provider of the recipient - I assume that this means that 'Google Voice' is, or provides, the sms service.