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SMS Email Gateway + Send to Phone Inline SMS Filter for Drupal
New Developments in Drupal’s SMS Framework
New Developments in Drupal’s SMS Framework
We’ve made some major progress recently on Drupal's new SMS Framework sponsored by Google Summer of Code. So far I've completed an SMS email gateway implementation and a filter module that introduces some interesting functionality to Drupal. I did a short demo at the July Washington DC Drupal meet-up but wanted to share the progress with everyone outside DC too.
This screencast shows what the new functionality can do.
Email gateways allow SMS text messages to be sent to a phone by way of its email address (e.g. 5551237654@carriername.net), and the majority of carriers provide this as a free service. In addition to a standard ten-digit phone number, the SMS email gateway module prompts the user for their wireless carrier and uses both to build the destination address. But email gateways aren’t a good solution for large blasts, as rapidly flooding carriers' systems is a great way to get banned from the services. However, these gateways are great for sending out a few messages here and there.
In the video, you’ll see how the gateway and the SMS filter module allow you to surround a chunk of text with [sms][/sms] tags. The module then highlights the text and appends a "send to phone" button to it. This button then takes users to a form where they can send the highlighted block of text in a message.
Want to know more? Come join the SMS Framework group.
Comments
Need Providers SMTP address
Hi,
I am a php developer working for a software company. Currently we are developing a small free sms portal www.textforfree.net. For that i need SMTP address for all service providers. Specially for USA. I searched all over the net and even i found some of them, but not all. I dont mind if i have to pay for the list. Can you help me regarding this? As in from where I should get the list or where to search. Third party sms gateway is another solution but I am much interested if i get the list so that we can provide free sms service to the user.
Thanks,
Ajay
Will, My name is Roberto
Will,
My name is Roberto Marquez and saw your info on this site. Great info. I would love to pick your brain on some insight in sms donations. I would like to offer non-profit organizations in New England the opportunity to try fundraising via text message. Do you offer consulting services that can guide me to reach my goal. I would appreciate any guidance to begin the process to implement this service.
Thanks for you time and hope to hear from you soon. -Roberto
Hi Roberto, Why don't you
Hi Roberto,
Why don't you give us a call, 202.250.3633? We'd love to talk to you about this.
Bonnie
Great addition for an
Great addition for an excellent cms.
Which carriers does it support?
Another sms enabled contact form you can embed into your website
A heads up in case anyone is searching for this type of thing. There is a great video tutorial and a Free sms enabled contact form at http://www.easykiss123.com/?p=32
Works well and is pretty darn easy to embed into your own site.
Want to know how to send email to sms as sms
Helllo Sir i find ur side while i were searching about sending email to mobile phone as sms. Please show me a good way to send bulk sms to mobilephone by using email by Outlook Express. I want to send sms to only india.
I will wait for ur reply.....
Hi Rahul, Thanks for
Hi Rahul,
Thanks for stopping by. I think you will find what you are looking for regarding SMS email gateways here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_gateways. If you scroll down to "Email to SMS / Web to SMS", you will see a listing of email addresses that carriers provide.
Good luck!