Email to sms using gsm modems

Question

I'm looking for a email to SMS solution to run on Linux. It's going to be a gateway for Smokeping to send alerts to asscoicated admins

Answer 1

It's been a while since I've done it but I recall it was fairly easy to do using SMS Server Tools and a bit of scripting. It's even easier if you can skip the email part and have the software create a suitably formatted file in the SMS Tools outgoing directory.

Answer 2

We have a similar set up for a few of our server locations. Most of them use a nokia mobile phone connected via serial and we use gnokii ( http://www.gnokii.org ) to pipe emails to it. The other solution we use is a cloud sms gateway and simply curl/wget a weblink to send the sms. There are a heap of services like this but we use clickatell ( http://www.clickatell.com )

Answer 3

Use the kannel sms gateway. www.kannel.org

Answer 4

Try gammu. I'm using it to send SMS from my nagios using Vodafone with a UMTS stick. But almost any phone can be connected to gammu.

Answer 5

I've yet to use cellular network solutions and have reasonable success with cellular e-Mail gateways, however I do plan on looking into implementing one of these solutions. They look to be really useful.

• Foxbox is a cellular gateway for the SMS network that Nagios supports
• Walkthrough for building your own SMS gateway.