# How to send sms to mobiles **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [June 17, 2010, 4:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-send-sms-to-mobiles/190312 "2010-06-17T16:22:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kirankinuforu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/977dab/32.png) [@kirankinuforu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kirankinuforu)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 4:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-send-sms-to-mobiles/190312/1 "2010-06-17T16:22:47Z")
how to send sms to mobiles ---
**Author:** ![kirankinuforu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/977dab/32.png) [@kirankinuforu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kirankinuforu)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 4:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-send-sms-to-mobiles/190312/2 "2010-06-17T16:22:48Z")
There are many ways available to do this. 1.Set up a sms gateway(kannel i prefer) and connect with smsc using smpp (can send and get sms).then use your web server to connect with sms gateway. 2.Buy a API from service providers(Google it)(bit restricted).you will get a URL basically, and you can execute it using curl related functions or sockets Regards Cherankrish On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 6:29 PM, karnati kiran ---
**Author:** ![kirankinuforu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/977dab/32.png) [@kirankinuforu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kirankinuforu)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 4:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-send-sms-to-mobiles/190312/3 "2010-06-17T16:26:21Z")
This may or may not meet your requirements, but if you don’t need 100% certainty that the messages will be delivered, most mobile providers have an email address you can send a message to. The message will get forwarded as an SMS to the mobile device. I’m using this technique in my app. Here is a list of some of them. Alltel removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid AT&T Wireless removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid Boost removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid Cingular removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid Cricket removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid Digicel removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid Lime removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid MetroPCS removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid Nextel removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid QWest removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid Rogers PCS removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid Sprint PCS removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid T-Mobile removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid US Cellular removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid Verizon removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid Virgin Mobile removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid Make sure the message is below the 160 character limit as there will be no confirmation of receipt or notification of failure. The delay between sending the message and it being received varies with each message, and delivery is not guaranteed (which is also a stipulation of the SMS protocol). Dee On Jun 15, 9:16 am, cheran krishnamoorthy [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![kirankinuforu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/977dab/32.png) [@kirankinuforu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kirankinuforu)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 4:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-send-sms-to-mobiles/190312/4 "2010-06-17T16:34:42Z")
You’d use this library, altough you need a clickatell account… > **[GitHub - lukeredpath/clickatell: NO LONGER SUPPORTED - Ruby interface to the...](https://github.com/lukeredpath/clickatell)** > > NO LONGER SUPPORTED - Ruby interface to the Clickatell SMS Gateway API - GitHub - lukeredpath/clickatell: NO LONGER SUPPORTED - Ruby interface to the Clickatell SMS Gateway API El 15/06/10 18:30, chewmanfoo escribió:\> To clarify: sending an email to one of these addresses, and getting it ---
**Author:** ![kirankinuforu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/977dab/32.png) [@kirankinuforu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kirankinuforu)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 4:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-send-sms-to-mobiles/190312/5 "2010-06-17T16:27:00Z")
To clarify: sending an email to one of these addresses, and getting it trannsformed into an SMS message depends on that carrier’s SMSC having an email gateway device, which is essentially some sort of SMTP server which reads messages and makes an SMS message out of them. If the carrier did not have an email gateway, this sort of thing wouldn’t work. One should not assume that SMSC is some sort of email technology such that all messages sent from handset to handset get transformed into emails.