xucpclient - Sonera Short Message Service (SMS) client
xucpclient [options] <message>
xucpclient is a Short Message Service (SMS) client that sends messages
via a Sonera XUCP server.
To operate xucpclient, you will need an authentication file to be
present as either /etc/xucpclientrc or ~/.xucpclientrc. This file
should have the form:
$login = ``xxxxx'';
$passwd = ``yyyyy'';
where the details between the quotes are available only to authorised Sonera
personnel.
- -d
-
Turn on debugging messages.
- -e <DDMMYYHHMM|+mins>
-
Set an expiry date for the message, after which it will be discarded if it
is still pending. If provided in DDMMYYHHMM format, the time should be
given in Eastern European Time (EET), the time zone of Finland.
-
The days, months and years may be separated by either '/' or '-', the date
and time may be separated by a '^', and the hours and minutes may be
separated by a ':'. All of these separators are optional and are provided
purely to improve human legibililty.
-
More flexible is the +mins format, which will expire the message a given
number of minutes from the current time.
- -l <user>
-
Log into server as this user.
- -n
-
Log into server, but don't send the message.
- -p <password>
-
Log into server using this password.
- -r <recipients>
-
List of recipients. The list should be supplied as a single parameter
(i.e. multiple entries should be single quoted), and may consist of
either telephone numbers or telephone book entries.
-
A telephone number should be supplied in its full international form, e.g.
+31651123456, although you may use 00 instead of the prefix '+'.
-
A telephone book is one or both of /etc/xucpphonebook and ~/.xucpphonebook.
These files should contain entries of the form user=number. White space
on either side of the '=' is allowed.
- -s <sender>
-
This option may be used to supply a number that will appear to have
initiated the message. If this is not supplied, the recipient number will
be duplicated as the sender number.
- -t
-
Truncate message if more than 150 characters.
- -v
-
Run in verbose mode.
- xucpclient -de 25/09/99^12:05 -s +31651123456 -r 0611 Hi
-
Send the message ``Hi'' to +31651123456, stating that it came from 0611.
Debugging messages will be displayed and, if the message cannot be sent by
12:05 on 25th September 1999, it will be discarded.
- xucpclient -e +120 -s +31651123456 Got there in 2 hours
-
Send a message to expire 2 hours from now if undelivered.
- /usr/games/fortune -sn 150 | xucpclient -vr 0031651123456
-
Send a suitably short fortune cookie to 0031651123456, sending the message to
stdout in the process. The sender's number will appear the same as
the recipient's.
- Try this in your .procmailrc:
-
:0 c
-
* ^From.*company.com
-
| formail -X ``From:'' -X ``Subject:'' | \ xucpclient -r +31651123456
-
This will alert you whenever you receive an e-mail from somebody at
company.com.
Ian Macdonald <ian@caliban.org>
Probably. Send me your diffs.
/etc/xucpclientrc, ~/.xucpclientrc, /etc/xucpphonebook,
~/./xucpphonebook