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All the major cellular carriers provide an email-to-SMS gateway which you may use for free. To send a text message with Robo-FTP, use the CREATEMAIL and SENDMAIL commands to sent an email where the recipient address has this format: <cell phone number>@<carrier SMS gateway>

Here is a list of carriers and their texting email gateways:

Alltel	message.alltel.com
Boost Mobile	myboostmobile.com
Cingular/AT&T	txt.att.net
Rogers Canada	pcs.rogers.com
Sprint Nextel	messaging.nextel.com
Sprint PCS	messaging.sprintpcs.com
T-Mobile	tmomail.net
Verizon Wireless	vtext.com
Virgin Mobile USA	vmobl.com

For example, to send a text message to a T-Mobile subscriber with a phone number of 555-555-5555, you simply need to send an email to [email protected].

SET from_name = "Acme Widget Co. Sales"

SET from_email = "[email protected]"

;; subject line will be ignored by most carriers

SET subj = "My Subject"

;; Message body should be 160 characters or less

SET body = "My message."

SET attach = ""

CREATEMAIL from_name from_email subj body attach

SET to_name = "Ray Johnson"

SET to_email = "[email protected]"

SET server = "smtp.mymailserver.com"

SENDMAIL server to_name to_email /user="smtpid" /pw="smtppw"

Related command(s): SENDMAIL, GETMAIL, MAILTO