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Does anyone know of a service that will send SMS messages over the internet, and can be automated?
Prefer service to:
Like to avoid:
Eric Koslow
Posted 2009-07-17T18:08:21.257
Reputation: 493
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I knew of a professional service that required the end user to define their carrier, and then they converted it to the built-in email address (EX: Verizon is <10-digit phone number>@vtext.com)
I found a (non-confirmed) list of many of the carriers here:
ATT - [10-digit phone number] @ txt.att.net
Sprint - [10-digit phone number] @ messaging.sprintpcs.com
T-Mobile - [10-digit phone number] @ tmomail.net
US Cellular - [10-digit phone number] @ email.uscc.net
Verizon - [10-digit phone number] @ vtext.com
GavinR
Posted 2009-07-17T18:08:21.257
Reputation: 385
Yes indeed this requires the user to define their carrier before it's useful ... unless you can determine the carrier based on the phone number (anyone know if there's an API to do that? :) – GavinR – 2009-07-24T14:40:48.417
Wow this is really good! The only problem with this is that I don't know what carrier the number I'm sending to has. – Eric Koslow – 2009-07-17T19:53:39.707
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Zeep Mobile is a free service, and I think it's pretty good. I'm planning on using it for a project in the near future.
jtbandes
Posted 2009-07-17T18:08:21.257
Reputation: 8 350
1I like the idea, but this service seems a little too controlling for what I am doing. I don't want to force my users to sign up through a web page. Nominally I want to be able to specify a number and the message, and that's it. – Eric Koslow – 2009-07-17T19:51:18.620
They recently sent out a news email including a section saying "Users can now subscribe to your app via SMS in addition to using the Zeep Mobile panel." So maybe it's a non-issue now? – jtbandes – 2009-07-17T22:40:21.117
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You can script PHP to do this by sending email to phone#@carrieraddress.com. Here is a list of the email format for different carriers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_gateway
You can write a script and then use a cron job or service scheduler to automate the messages.
barfoon
Posted 2009-07-17T18:08:21.257
Reputation: 926
Just to clarify, do you mean "Short Message Service" (as in cellular phone text messaging)? – GavinR – 2009-07-17T18:23:25.463
Yes, I want to sends automated texts, using some service that I can then program to. – Eric Koslow – 2009-07-17T19:44:55.923
There's definitely noo way anyone would try and exploit such a thing. – MetaGuru – 2012-12-18T17:15:35.480