Hello,
I was looking for this feature, but I didn't find it. I'm using SMSTools in our NMS to send sms alerts. Everything works great, but I can't send the same alert to many persons - at this moment I'm making new sms for every one..The question is:what should the message form look like to be send to many numbers?Below there are some examples which I tried, but without success:

1)
To: 48600700800; 48600700801

SMSmessage

2)
To: 48600700800
To: 48600700801

SMSmessage

3)
To: 48600700800 48600700801

SMSmessage

Thanks in advance for any help in this topic.

Peter

For smsd every SMS is a single file. This is because sending to some numbers may fail, delivery timestamps are stored to files, etc...

You can use checkhandler to check "To:" field(s) and create multiple files if necessary. Here is an example: Multiple recipients in single SMS file.

I just edited the sample. It now allows multiple numbers in single To: field, and also multiple To: fields. Semicolon also works, but do not use it.

Sorry for bothering You about something that was already solved before Keke :]

But I'm having some problems with using this script:
My smsd.conf:
devices = NokiaE51 logfile = /var/log/smsd.log loglevel = 5 shell = /bin/bash executable_check = yes checkhandler = /etc/multisms.conf sent = /var/spool/sms/sent stats = /var/spool/sms/stats spool_directory_order = yes [NokiaE51] device = /dev/ttyACM0 incoming = yes pin = xxxx

Your sample script /etc/multisms.conf:


Result when I'm trying to restart smsd:
service sms3 start Starting SMS Daemon: Checkhandler /etc/multisms.conf is not executable for smsd. There was 1 major problem found. Cannot start. See the log file for details. smsd failed.

My smsd version:
smsd: Smsd v3.1.14 started

Of course Keke - I've noticed this after I post my reply
One more thing: your script generates random temp file names:
do file=`mktemp $outgoing/send_XXXXXX`

Is there a chance to stay with original names with only tiny changes for example: originalnameofsms_1,2,3?
In our case the name of the sms is the name of event and it's quite needed for troubleshooting..

Thanks,
Peter

The script can do anything what is required...

Comment out the line containing mktemp and add those three lines. This will keep the original name and add _1, _2 and so on:



Perhaps a phone number also can be used. /var/spool/sms/outgoing/eventname_phonenumber:



Also note that you can use your own headers in the SMS file, if they do not override existing headers in smsd (fileformat). This will add a  "Event:"  header to the file and later all details can be read from file:

This is exactly what I've been looking for - now our NMS alerts work epicly

Big thanks for Your help Keke!
Peter