Re: Steep learning curve

[Scot Rogers]

What phone and operating system are you using?

On 8/23/21, Warren Burstein <warren.burstein@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've got a phone that sends over 1,000 texts a day.  Most of them go to a
> phone that rotates between the support team and I feel sorry for whoever's
> turn it is to have the phone.  But then there were a few months when it was
> broken (I think the USB cable came out of the phone) and no one
> complained.  But the texts are a backup for emails so maybe it's not as
> mission-critical as it sounds ...
>
> The only reason I noticed is that each spring the CEO has daily reminders
> of something personal sent to himself and to friends of his and on the
> first day he noticed that he didn't get one.
>
> I wrote my own version of smsd, and I don't use the X version as X11
> doesn't work through the firewall.  I've thought of having it do a small
> number of retries when there are problems and emailing me when it seems to
> be unplugged but since no one notices failures except for the CEO's
> personal thing, I'm hoping to avoid that.
>
> But we only use it locally, because texts are billed to the sender where we
> are.  We also send a lot of texts in the US (no idea how many since I don't
> count those) using cell-providers' email-to-SMS gateways.  A while back one
> of them stopped working, I told our tech support to contact Verizon's (or
> whoever's) tech support, but they didn't get back to me, so either it got
> fixed, or they just gave up ;-)
>
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 4:42 PM Pawel Kot <gnokii@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Scot,
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 7:40 PM Scot Rogers <scot.a.rogers@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > My name is Scot and I have a need to be able to send mass sms texts.
>>
>> Just a disclaimer here: gnokii might not be your choice here. Possibly it
>> is
>> more reasonable to use mass communication provider, such as Twilio,
>> connect
>> through an API and use just that. You will have much better througput.
>> With
>> gnokii you will be limited with serial sending by a single phone (or
>> multiple
>> phones if you connect them).
>>
>> > I have a ton of questions.  First, I downloaded and installed the
>> > software from the Ubuntu repository and it appears to be all there.
>> > I've started reading some of the info within the package, but I can't
>> > seem to find any solid guidance.
>>
>> You need to configure gnokii first to talk to your device by editing
>> gnokiirc file. You can get some details under:
>>  - https://gnokii.org/docs.shtml
>> There is also a decent documentation in the sample gnokiirc:
>>  - http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnokii.git/tree/Docs/sample/gnokiirc
>> and you can look through other documentation provided:
>>  - http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnokii.git/tree/Docs
>>
>> Our wiki is down for a couple of years but you can also find more
>> detailed
>> reference at:
>>  -
>> https://web.archive.org/web/20170616003101/http://wiki.gnokii.org/index.php/Main_Page
>>  -
>> https://web.archive.org/web/20170616014824/http://wiki.gnokii.org/index.php/User's_Guide
>>  -
>> https://web.archive.org/web/20170617085029/http://wiki.gnokii.org/index.php/Config
>>  -
>> https://web.archive.org/web/20170705093631/http://wiki.gnokii.org/index.php/Config_options
>>
>> > I can't seem to get Xgnokii to launch from the gui, and when I run it
>> > from terminal, I get an error list revolving around the phone not
>> > being connected - which it is not.  I don't have a phone, yet.  And
>>
>> xgnokii would work only with phone connected and configured as far as
>> I remember.
>>
>> > I'm not sure how to find a more recent model phone that accepts AT
>> > commands.   If I can get a proper phone I think it'll help a bit, and
>> > these old nokia phones are looking harder and harder to find.
>>
>> I'm afraid I cannot help with this one. Actually I haven't used gnokii
>> in ages...
>>
>> Cheers,
>> --
>> Pawel Kot
>> http://www.gnokii.org/
>>
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