Sending & receiving SMS in linux

[Herouth Maoz]

On 18/03/2010, at 21:54, Elazar Leibovich wrote:

> Oh boy! That's what just I feared would happen. I thought we would  
> know better than that now.

Not sure who "we" are exactly. Anyway, standardisation sometimes  
suppresses innovation. For example, if you standardise on a document  
format for spreadsheets, e.g. ods, you basically hurt software that  
represent data in an innovative way (for example, I used to use a  
spreadsheet program in which the data was in small grids, and these  
grids were connected by formulas - rather than the giant grid that  
contains formulas and data which we are used to).

But I suppose this is a political discussion so I'd better not pursue  
it.

>
> One more question please. Is what you said relevant to receiving  
> SMS? Is this usually done also through HTTP POST?
> (And thanks alot! that's just the answer I sought.)

Receiving SMS is a hairy business. But basically, like receiving  
delivery notifications, you usually need to set up a web service for  
the provider to access and give you the messages. Some providers (my  
company included) also allow usage of e-mail rather than HTTP. Just  
don't expect messages longer than 70 character to come in intact. :)

Anyway, the bottom line is that you can do it on Linux quite well, but  
you can't standardise any of it. At best, you can offer an SMPP plugin  
as your default (there used to be other standards like UCP, but they  
are even more obsolete than SMPP nowadays). Even then, not all  
providers implement the standard in full so you need to be careful  
about the assumptions you make.

Herouth
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