Sending SMS - is there a way?

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello everyone,

Is there a way to send SMS for free using a perl module? Does it involve signing up with an SMS gateway provider and buying sms credits?

Please enlighten :)

Thank yo all!

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Re: Sending SMS - is there a way? by Fletch (Bishop) on Jun 26, 2020 at 17:22 UTC
If you're wanting to send to a particular number (e.g. your own) many carriers at one point would have an email to SMS gateway so that if you email something like `2125551234@smsgw.cellprovider.com` it'll forward the body of the message (or maybe the subject and first n chars of the body, or . . .) to that phone number as a text. Then you'd just need an email module (say Email::Sender) and the correct addresses (which could be more tricky if you're dealing with (say) people on multiple carriers who may have different gateway addresses). The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Sending SMS - is there a way? by perlfan (Vicar) on Jun 27, 2020 at 06:58 UTC
>SMS gateway AFAIC, this is how a lot of Perl apps send text message alerts. If OP wants to pony up, a service like https://www.twilio.com/sms or https://www.linphone.org/ might be part of the solution.	[reply]
Re: Sending SMS - is there a way? by jo37 (Deacon) on Jun 26, 2020 at 17:12 UTC
Why don't you ask CPAN? Greetings, -jo `$gryYup$d0ylprbpriprrYpkJl2xyl~rzg??P~5lp2hyl0p$`	[reply]
Re: Sending SMS - is there a way? by perlfan (Vicar) on Jul 09, 2020 at 04:48 UTC
necroreply, but just saw this run past the CPAN nodelet, SMS::Send::VoIP::MS.	[reply]

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