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Newbie Joined: 19 Mar 2005 Posts: 6

I've been toying with the thought of having zmud send sms messages to my phone on a few events in the event that I am AFK. I'm not real sure how I'd even begin to accomplish the texting. Pretty much every cell service has a form on their website to text someone on their network and some sites such as yahoo [http://mobile.yahoo.com/sms/sendsms] allow you to choose which network you are going ot send the message to.

Could someone possibly point me in the right direction atleast.

Enchanter Joined: 20 Nov 2002 Posts: 627 Location: USA

this is a unique idea and I doubt anyone has fiddled with it.
Sending information to a web site would be a rout to look at
also maybe the FTP, if yahoo has that for text messaging then your in, since I do not have a text messaging there is no way to test this theory.

But I could think of a few other things that might do the trick.

Wizard Joined: 15 Jan 2002 Posts: 1644 Location: USA

I think I am gonna tackle this one :p
Ill let ya know in a week or two what I come up with

Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 4:39 pm

If you have Microsoft Outlook, the easiest way is to use COM to get Outlook to send a message to an email account. Yahoo, as you know, allows you to send SMS to your mobile about emails you have received. I don't know the Outlook Object model, so I can't help you in that department. If you have it installed, the model is stored in the following file:
C:\program files\microsoft office\office\msoutl9.olb

However, I believe it goes something like this:

#VAR Outlook %comcreate("Outlook.Application")
#VAR NewMail @Outlook.CreateItem(olMailItem)
NewMail.Recipients="test@yahoo.com"
NewMail.Subject="This is a test subject"
NewMail.Body="This is a test Email Body"
#CALL @NewMail.Send

Good Luck.