Comments on: Open Source SMS Text Messaging Application

By: Garry

Garry — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:33:27 +0000

Hey David,

THis is exactly what I was looking. It’s good to hear it from someone that’s done this in the real world too.

Cheers,
Garry

By: dc

dc — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:08:27 +0000

Quick update – If you use Wordpress, there look to be some interesting plug-ins available now that take advantage of this same approach for delivering SMS messages via email.

I downloaded one – EasySMS – and plan to test it out.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/easysms/

By: jackson

jackson — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:57:38 +0000

hey there, have been messing around with phpmailer for awhile, and found your site while looking for a solution to a problem:

international characters not displaying when emailed. when phone returns and email, writing international chars with it’s own keyboard, likewise not displayed in email

i believe this is an issue with the GSM charset, eg: it’s needed to be able to send readable sms to phones (gsm charset supports international chars) have tried changing content type, encoding and numerous other things, would appreciate any ides you may have, feel free to email,thanks

By: Robert Thiele

Robert Thiele — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:05:57 +0000

A Linux SMS virtual appliance management server that is teacher controlled. Wireless Test Administration for K12 and beyond.

http://messaging4education.com

By: tom

tom — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:48:00 +0000

Thank you for your post.

My workplace is interested in being able to do more with SMS, but, I hear that previous attempts at your approach have seen problems with spam filters blocking the messages. (This could be caused by the fact that we had been an ISP for 10 years, and were the AOL of hte local scene).

My question for you is this: Have you had much problem with messages not getting through, because they were rejected as spam? What did oyu have to do to correct it?

By: David Johnson

David Johnson — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:14:39 +0000

Would you be willing to share the code you wrote so we can use it?

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By: Kyle2008

Kyle2008 — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:45:34 +0000

Great post DC. Very interesting approach to sending SMS. Is the source code for this actually available anywhere?

Thanks!

By: JustUs1776

JustUs1776 — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:21:43 +0000

Great post. I’m a LAMP Developer and I was wondering if anyone has been able to build their own GSM server. That is, a server that can utilize a GSM modem to send direct, local messages to cell or IP phones. I’m working for a not-for-profit health care organization and have a suite of applications that I’d like to improve communication turn around time by sending SMS messages our nurses IP phones and our Physician’s cell phones. I’ve found a ton of services that are all cost prohibitive and was hoping for an open source solution.

By: Roy

Roy — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 05:21:13 +0000

My son’s teacher would like to be able to send short text messages to students. I’m looking for a simple solution that would allow him to broadcast to 20-40 students a “reminder” about class info. This article looks very promising, but It appears to be server based. Can this type of program be modified to run run stand-a-lone, ie flash drive, desktop…?