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Take a look at the following modules:

There maybe more out there.

Note that many pagers and cell phones have E-mail gateways, so it's just as easy to send E-mail usng one of the zillions of E-mail modules out there.

Also note different companies have different limits on the sizes of their <acronym title="Short Message System">SMS</acronym> messages (110 characters, 120 characters, 240 characters, etc.)

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SNPP, e-mail and MAXLENGTH
by giulienk (Curate) on Oct 18, 2001 at 10:46 UTC

    I'm not trying to write a Net::Something module about a new protocol. Instead i want to give a high level and simple interface to sending SMS through the free web services available online.

    I don't know what's the situation with SMS in the US, but here in Europe no much people have e-mail gateway. Anyway my base WWW::SMS accept any kind of submodule that conforms to the standards i'm going to set, so there will be no problem i think in writing one that make use of an e-mail gateway.

    About different sizes of SMS, well, the MAXLENGTH exportable constant of submodules is just for that :)

    Anyway i started a project on sourceforge: sources are already there so you can take a look at latest evolutions.

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      You could try connecting directly to the E-mail server for the particular service. (Most services document this.)

      If somebody can connect to the Internet, they can directly connect to a service's E-mail server to send mail to a user on that server, and likely they can use SNPP directly, unless there are firewall issues.

      Anyway, you should look at those modules I referred to. If nothing else, web gateways to SMS are not standardized like search engine interfaces, so your code may break every time the service provider decides to redesign their pages.

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