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For the curious, if you just want to one-off this for yourself, you probably don't need twilio to do it. Most carriers have a special domain that if you send em
by noonespecial 9y ago
For the curious, if you just want to one-off this for yourself, you probably don't need twilio to do it. Most carriers have a special domain that if you send email with the recipient's phone number, it turns into a text. I've got Verizon and its as simple as this from the command line:
echo 'Text message text' | mail -s 'Subject will display in braces in the message' -a 'From: Myserver@Mydomain.com' 'number@vtext.com'
This ended up working faster than Twilio for me. (Less than 10 seconds from enter key to text on phone).
- jaboutboul 9y agoYour number is now on hacker news!
- noonespecial 9y agoJust saw that. Yowzer... damn clumsy of me! (Thankfully a published work number but still!)
- taco_emoji 9y agoYep, they're called SMS gateways. I don't think there's a single canonical source for them, unfortunately, but I keep this file bookmarked for when I need to look it up: https://github.com/cubiclesoft/email_sms_mms_gateways/blob/master/sms_mms_gateways.txt https://github.com/cubiclesoft/email_sms_mms_gateways/blob/m...
- rocqua 9y agoIs the SMS free? If not, who pays for it?
- MichaelGG 9y agoIn the US, the recipient pays for texts.
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoSo we can drain your account sending you texts, how mad is that.
- tyleraldrich 9y agoWell, it depends on your phone plan. If you have unlimited texting, then yeah its "free" (and you pay as a part of your monthly phone bill), if you pay per text, you pay whatever the rate for an SMS message is.