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Until Feb. 2002 Angelo Masci maintained this software, he's the 'author' and first maintainer.
From Feb. 2002 Michael Holzt is maintaining it.
This is what you could call a friendly take-over. Angelo simply hadn't the time left to continue SMS Client development. We would like to thank him for this piece of software, and his attitude towards Free Software Development!
Recently (March 26 - 2002) Koenraad Heijlen now maintains the 2.0.x tree, Michael will concentrate on the development tree (2.2.x)
Currently NO, although number of individuals have said they are working on such projects.
No. SMS Client uses your modem to dial into a messages centre operated by your provider, this relays the message to the phone or pager.
Drivers are being implemented which interface with web based services hosted by some providers. In the case of these service it is assumed that you are connected to the internet and can contact then either directly or via a http proxy server.
look at the providers list, in the 'web based' section for a full list.
No. This software is intended only for sending SMS messages. Some free UNIX software for doing this is available for use with specialized equipment. For more information see:
The additional code is still in development. Feel free to take a look and send us any feedback you may have.
If you're from the UK Feel free to send your email address to Angelo's pager on minicall:252044 He'll try to mail you a reply back a soon as he gets a chance. Remember that this is a UK service and will cost you a lot if you're dialing from outside the UK...
Use GNU Make.
Versions 2.0.8m and up have been updated significantly to work with non GNU makes.
smsclient will be using autoconf/automake soon...
The binaries have been built with the '-g' options to include as many debug symbols as possible. You can run strip on the binaries to reduce their size considerably.
When you run the install script the binaries are stripped before being copied to their destination.
If you are still concerned you can reduce the size by editing the file 'drivers' and recompiling to include only those drivers that you are going to use.
SMS Client Filters out any duplicate names if found. If you really want to send yourself several messages enter several versions of your name in the address book and specify these on the command line.
by default SMSClient uses stdout to display some information (dialing...). Some apllications (eg. netsaint) don't want to know what a script returns, and SMSClient sends it output into the great wide open... This results in a Broken Pipe . You should call smsclient without output, smsclient -q .
from 2.0.8z the configuration directory has moved to /etc/smsclient. You should change your variables there.
When you want to send a message you use the number on the back side of the pager, the last 6 digits of this number is the Pager ID.
If you would like to discuss usage of SMSCleint you can join the SMS Client Users mailing list here.
You may unsubscibe via the web interface with your email address and password. These details are sent to you on a monthly basis as a reminder. Alternatively, look at the email headers on any list posting to find these details.
You can reach the administrator of the list (a human) by looking in for the email address within the header of a post to a particular list.
If the patch is not too big you can send them to the mailinglist. Otherwise just put them online and mail the url. It's a good thing (TM) to save some bandwith.