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Re: SMS scheduling app (which do you use?)

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On 2016-11-06, Algeria Horan <algeriahoran@algeria.horan.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Nov 2016 15:46:33 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>
>> If you find a stand alone tool to send SMS from a computer (not a web
>> page), you might be able to program that to happen at certain time. In
>> Linux, using cron and an SMS sender, which now I don't know of one.
>> Those I used in the past disappeared.
>
> You don't even need an "sms sender" in Linux because there are email-to-sms
> gateways for all the common carriers.
>
> So, it's not at all a difficult task in Linux to schedule SMS messages
> simply because, on Linux, it would just be a batch file that checks the date
> and then sends an email containing a file.
>
> Pseudo code:
>   If date then
>   mailx -s "subject is here" recipient@tomobile.com < file.txt
>   endif
>
> The email addresses for all mobile carriers' SMS gateways are listed on the
> net, e.g.,
> http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/how-to-send-e-mail-to-sms-text/
>
> So, it's a trivial task, on Linux, to schedule SMS messages.
>
> I guess what you're saying is that Android "is" linux, so, by extension, it
> should be trivial on Android?

Linux is the kernel. Not the layer of user programs that run on top of
the kernel. So, you heed a shell with scripting ability, and a mailer
program, like mailx. Do these exist for Android? I do not know. 

>
> Is it the same thing?

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SMS scheduling app (which do you use?) Algeria Horan <algeriahoran@algeria.horan.net> - 2016-11-01 14:14 +0000
  Re: SMS scheduling app (which do you use?) Algeria Horan <algeriahoran@algeria.horan.net> - 2016-11-05 02:34 +0000
    Re: SMS scheduling app (which do you use?) Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2016-11-05 11:05 +0000
      Re: SMS scheduling app (which do you use?) Algeria Horan <algeriahoran@algeria.horan.net> - 2016-11-05 13:15 +0000
        Re: SMS scheduling app (which do you use?) Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2016-11-05 13:30 +0000
          Re: SMS scheduling app (which do you use?) Algeria Horan <algeriahoran@algeria.horan.net> - 2016-11-05 13:40 +0000
            Re: SMS scheduling app (which do you use?) "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2016-11-05 15:46 +0100
              Re: SMS scheduling app (which do you use?) Algeria Horan <algeriahoran@algeria.horan.net> - 2016-11-06 03:05 +0000
                Re: SMS scheduling app (which do you use?) William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2016-11-06 11:07 +0000
                Re: SMS scheduling app (which do you use?) Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2016-11-06 11:58 +0000
                Re: SMS scheduling app (which do you use?) "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2016-11-06 13:43 +0100
                Re: SMS scheduling app (which do you use?) Algeria Horan <algeriahoran@algeria.horan.net> - 2016-11-06 21:54 +0000
                Re: SMS scheduling app (which do you use?) Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> - 2016-11-10 23:36 +0000
                Re: SMS scheduling app (which do you use?) "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2016-11-06 12:54 +0100

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