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[Tom Browder]

Anyone know of a way to send text messages to willing recipients from one’s
own website and server without hiring DM provider?

Thanks.

-Tom

[Darac Marjal]

Post by Tom Browder
Anyone know of a way to send text messages to willing recipients from
one’s own website and server without hiring  DM provider?

What I've done in the past is to get a cheap Android phone, and connect
it to the server using USB. You can then use "adb" to trigger the phone
to send an SMS with your desired payload. StackOverflow has some good
discussion on how to do the scripting side of things:
https://stackoverflow.com/q/17580199

[Ryan Nowakowski]

Post by Tom Browder
Anyone know of a way to send text messages to willing recipients from
one’s own website and server without hiring  DM provider?

What I've done in the past is to get a cheap Android phone, and connect it
to the server using USB. You can then use "adb" to trigger the phone to send
an SMS with your desired payload. StackOverflow has some good discussion on
how to do the scripting side of things: https://stackoverflow.com/q/17580199

Hey Darac, it would be cool to add Android adb as a backend to
https://github.com/roaldnefs/django-sms

(disclosure: I'm the author of the django-sms Twilio backend)

[john doe]

Post by Ryan Nowakowski

Post by Tom Browder
Anyone know of a way to send text messages to willing recipients from
one’s own website and server without hiring  DM provider?

(disclosure: I'm the author of the django-sms Twilio backend)

I guess, this is not what you asked!

To the OP, Twilio with the lang of your choosing! ;^)

--
John Doe

[Tom Browder]

Post by john doe

Post by Ryan Nowakowski

Post by Tom Browder
Anyone know of a way to send text messages to willing recipients from
one’s own website and server without hiring DM provider?

(disclosure: I'm the author of the django-sms Twilio backend)

I guess, this is not what you asked!

Not exactly, but I checked out Twilio and I have established an account to
try it out.

To the OP, Twilio with the lang of your choosing! ;^)


Already there, thanks, folks!

-Tom

[Charles Curley]

On Sat, 31 Aug 2024 08:26:16 -0500

Post by Tom Browder
Anyone know of a way to send text messages to willing recipients from
one’s own website and server without hiring DM provider?

In the US, many mobile phone providers will accept emails to "phone
***@some.tld", and send them as text messages to the phone number.
E.g. for verizon, ***@vzwpix.com. I once located a list of them
by searching.