> Thanks for the input. We are trying to make a script so that parents will > recieve a text message of student grades. Just getting info needed to see > what direction to take. > Here is some additional info that may be worth knowing. The "native" interface for SMS is not email/SMTP. The native stuff is fairly robust, but the email gateways vary quite widely. For example, with my carrier (T-Mobile in the US), a text message submitted via their web site or from another subscriber's phone will be delivered within a few seconds. A text message sent via their email gateway to the same phone number will sometimes also be delivered immediately. Unfortunately, it can also be delayed for hours or not ever show up. My experience with other carriers over the years has been similar. If you don't want to keep up your own list of email address formats for SMS for various carriers, there are 3rd parties who will take care of that for you. Many of those 3rd parties are free to use (unless your volumes are big, which could affect you with your intended use). For those I've spot-checked, all the free ones use the various carriers' email-to-SMS gateways, and that has the reliability shortcoming described above. A few of the for-pay services sound like they are using the native SMS/MMS interfaces, but I don't really know for sure since I didn't try them. The reasons for this arrangement are obvious: there are charges associated with the native gateways, whereas the carriers allow free email-to-SMS as a convenience feature on a best-effort basis. The bottom line is that you are likely to find email-to-SMS a heck of a lot less reliable and higher hassle than plain old email. It's not my place to wonder why student grades are so urgent that SMS is better than plain old email, but you might want to consider allowing notification both ways. (In my personal environment, I have an email alias that forwards to both my normal email mailbox and to my SMS address.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ ----- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
