John.Maloney at disney.com wrote:
> 
> I'm no expert on SMS, but I think that many phone service providers supply
> some sort of gateway that allows you to send SMS messages to their customers
> by sending an ordinary email message to some special address. In that case,
> you can use parts of Celeste to post messages. (See the classes MailMessage
> and SMTPServer.)
> 
> Let me know if you figure out how to do it.

and 

Duane Maxwell said:

> Hmmm....usually, sending SMS messages to a mobile phone just requires
> sending a (very) short email to a particular email address, typically <phone
> number>@<carrier's gateway>.  For instance, sending a message to someone on
> pacbell is something like: 8005551212 at pacbell.net.  Some carriers use a
> slightly different format for the phone number portion.
> 
> You should be able to find a list of formats/gateways with some clever
> googling.
> 


Ah

I tried the Google route and it looks like my service provider (Orange)
requires you to use a web page based gateway. In the case of Orange,
it's a pretty screwy gateway which believes your number is wrong and
bounces you back to the world's slowest flash only website which uses
javascript for browser recognition. Yuk! I _really_ wish webdesigners
would grow up! Of course, the gateway itself is java powered, which may
explain alot!

Attempts at email simply get a bounce, but it could just be a case of
dropping the leading zero or putting in the country code. 

I did find a free, no registration, web gateway (this is for the dreaded
Rolodex, so I thought I could get away with calling Scamper --
unfortunately it does require a clearance code post form submission, so
there's no easy way to avoid a call to Scamper -- not that I dislike
Scamper, but one day Rolodex is supposed to become a distributable and
it's looking rather bloated!). Having said that, it looks like the site
in question uses a modem via a cron job to deliver as it's been a good
hour and nothing has arrived yet.

I do get the impression from Duane's post that things may be
easier/simpler in the States, so don't let my experiences in the UK put
anyone off.

I'll keep trying to find a way.

Thanks both

Cheers

John 
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