Using gammu to send long text message

Gammu has feature to send long text message longer than 160 characters. A single sms is maximum 160 characters, so if you send a message more than 160 chars, it will be splitted up into messages.

There are two ways to sending long text message in gammu:

Using command [cci]gammu-smsd-inject[/cci]

You can find this command under gammu folder. Here is the syntax to send long text message using this command:

gammu-smsd-inject.exe -c smsdrc TEXT receiver -len 400 -text message

Notes:

  • [cci]smsdrc[/cci] smsd configuration file
  • [cci]receiver[/cci] receiver phone number
  • [cci]-len 400[/cci] just write like this
  • [cci]message[/cci] the message you want to send

See example below:

gammu-smsd-inject.exe -c smsdrc TEXT 628568787878 -len 400 -text "Ini teks yang panjang. Ini teks yang panjang. 
Ini teks yang panjang. Ini teks yang panjang. Ini teks yang panjang. Ini teks yang panjang. Ini teks yang panjang. 
Ini teks yang panjang. Ini teks yang panjang. Ini teks yang panjang."

Insert the message to [cci]outbox[/cci] and [cci]outbox_multipart[/cci] tables

Here step by step using this method:

  1. Split up the message into messages each 153 maximum length.
  2. Insert first part of the messages into [cci]outbox[/cci]. Keep up [cci]ID[/cci] of the inserted message
  3. Insert rest of message into [cci]outbox_multipart[/cci]
  4. Notes:
    Fill up [cci]UDH[/cci] column in [cci]outbox_multipart[/cci] with this value [cci]050003D3XXYY[/cci], where:

    • XX: two digits represent total of messages
    • YY: twi digist represent order of the messages

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