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Anyone know of an application to schedule SMS/MMS messages?

8 replies · 2,799 views · Started 29 September 2008

There are times when I think of a text I need to send and it's usually late at night since I don't sleep much. I'm afraid to send it for fear of waking the recipient. Yet if I wait until I get up the next day I inevitably forget.

So, what I want is an application that will allow me to type a SMS and then set a time/date for it to actually be sent. Anyone know of anything such as this? I can think of lots of uses for something that does this.

Thanks!

What's Python S60? Says I need to install it to use this. I assume all of this is stable?

Okay, so which Python do I need for an E71? I want to make sure I do this correctly since it's a lot of steps to get a simple SMS scheduler application.

As a related question, is there a way to block SMS? I don't mean move it to a black list after the phone receives it (which blackballer and other applications seem to do) but block it altogether so that I don't get charged for the SMS?

My guess is no, but I would love to hear some opinions.

No. You can't block it before you receive it.

If your network operator (carrier) offers a service to do it on the network side, then use that. If they don't ask them about setting up such a service.

And I have to say also that I'm happy that I live in a country where the SMS recipient doesn't pay for the messages at all. Are you in the USA, perhaps?

Here in the US we had free incoming SMS for the first few years then providers quietly changed that over w/o customers noticing or saying anything so now we pay for incoming too which is wrong IMO. It's not fair to pay for something you don't have control over.