Sending & receiving SMS in linux

[Dotan Cohen]

2010/3/18 Elazar Leibovich <elazarl at gmail.com>:
> Is there a standard way to send SMS from a computer in Israel?
> I'm writing a program, and I want it to be able to send and recieve SMS in
> Israel.
> Shallow searching for the topic reveals sites such as this
> one http://www.goldman.co.il/SMS2USite/ which gives many, seemingly
> nonstandard, way to send SMS via the company. Many of those ways are not
> compatible with Linux.
> Is there a standard protocol to send and receive SMS via a computer program?
> Standard means for instance, that it will be supported by many vendors, or
> that it'll be supported in many countries. I'd rather keep my code as
> portable and standard as possible (so no thanks, windows only COM components
> are not the way to go).
> Clarification, I'm not interested with a script that uses some free service
> (such as ICQ) to send sms. But in paid service that is able to send many SMS
> for a list of subscribers.

Python runs on Symbian phones, maybe you could use the actual phone to
send SMS. Gnokii (I think that's the name) also will let you interface
with a Nokia phone and send from it SMS messages.

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