Forward notices to mobile phones using email
Forward notices to mobile phones using email
| Issue ID: | 9 |
| Issue Category: | bug |
| Component: | uncategorized |
| Priority: | critical |
| Status: | fixed |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Version: | 0.5 |
| Milestone: | 0.9 |
Notices should be forwarded to mobile phones. SMS is hard, so we can take the cheap-and-dirty way, just forwarding stuff using email addresses. See:
-http://www.notepage.net/smtp.htm
So, we need:
* storage in the DB for services, including the format for converting phone number to an email address
* storage for phone numbers related to a user
* a settings page for setting your phone number
* a confirmation process for sending a message to a phone, and letting a user confirm it
* a hook for forwarding notices to SMS when new notices come in
* (Scaling) just save notices to the DB, and forward them with an offline daemon
->Ultimately, what we really need is real SMS, since many can receive SMS but not email (or "email-as-SMS") on their phones. Fake SMS is totally useless for most people in Europe, for instance. I understand "SMS is hard" - I just want to point out that SMS-via-email is not a '''real''' substitute. [[~Marjolein Katsma]]

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