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#32599 20-Apr-2009 21:21
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2Talk's softphone (from what I understand, it's a rebranded copy of Wengophone) allows you to send SMS messages - and it seems to work quite well. What I want to do, is to be able to set up a light SMS gateway which I can use to send out alerts for a couple of servers I want to keep an eye on - i.e. if the server goes down, I want to be sent a text message to say that this has happened.

Currently I'm using Nagios, which sends me an email whenever something significant happens. My thoughts were to set up some sort of application which would poll a POP3 mailbox for new mail every minute or so, and if there is a new message, send the contents of the subject line to me as an SMS message using 2Talk.

I can't seen to find any useful documentation that tells me how to do this, short of getting a copy of the 2Talkphone's source code and hacking it to do what I want. Does anyone have any creative ideas as to how I can achieve this?

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  #208229 20-Apr-2009 21:29
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There is an opt in Vodafone service for this which gives you an emails address like 6421xxxxxx@sms.vodafone.net.nz

Much easier (And perhaps more reliable) way to implement.

If you are on Vodafone, give them a call and ask for it to be enabled on your account.



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  #208230 20-Apr-2009 21:33
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Thanks Adam - Unfortunately I'm on Telecom, so that's a no-go.

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  #208231 20-Apr-2009 21:43
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Telecom also has SMS gateway called eTXT  http://www.telecom.co.nz/etxt where you can send via email using mobilenumber@etxt.co.nz 




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  #208233 20-Apr-2009 21:48
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dan: Telecom also has SMS gateway called eTXT  http://www.telecom.co.nz/etxt where you can send via email using mobilenumber@etxt.co.nz 



But Ouch!...

From the above website:

How much?


All prices exclusive of GST






  • Set up fee of $99




  • Monthly Access fee of $10 per account




  • 10c per message sent to each Telecom Mobile




  • 17c per message sent to other New Zealand network handsets





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  #208240 20-Apr-2009 22:00
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Thanks dan - for my volumes, it just isn't economical to sign up for something like eTXT or any of the major SMS gateways.

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  #208244 20-Apr-2009 22:11
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somebody123: Thanks dan - for my volumes, it just isn't economical to sign up for something like eTXT or any of the major SMS gateways.


Simplest way is just to use something like Clickatell.


 
 
 

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  #208248 20-Apr-2009 22:22
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Cheers - will take a look. For some reason I thought that Clickatell had high setup costs, though it looks like I'm wrong.

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  #208249 20-Apr-2009 22:24
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somebody123: Cheers - will take a look. For some reason I thought that Clickatell had high setup costs, though it looks like I'm wrong.


Getting SMS messages to Telecom at present is not easy or cheap. That should hopefully change once they have a real network in June.


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