From: Erik Hollensbe <erik@...>
Date: 2007-01-10T15:35:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Sending SMS Messages With Ruby

On 2007-01-07 11:56:11 -0800, Martin Boese <boesemar@gmx.de> said:

> 
> we are using smstools (http://smstools.meinemullemaus.de/) with a 
> serial cellphone attached to the server.

Just to add to this, you are at the complete mercy of the destination 
provider if you use their email gateway. For a while I did this w/ 
nagios, but the latency between send and arrival on my provider was so 
high that I was just wasting money (on several levels).

All the ISPs that I know of use the quoted solution (or something very 
similar), and if time is critical (which it generally is with these 
sorts of things), you may want to seriously explore that option.

-Erik