Coredump

Cellphone maker LG is sponsoring a National Texting Championship in the US. At stake is US$25,000. But, you gotta buy an enV phone (priced at US$79.99).

I bet Filipinos would come out on top, if we could participate.

(By the way, “texting” is a verb now?)

Not!

I was scheming a quick-and-dirty email-to-SMS hack:

• Send email notifications to my vanity mail address. Tag it “sms”.
• Create a filter that forwards mails tagged “sms” to 63xxxxxxxxxx@chikkatalk.com
• As we all know, @chikkatalk.com is Chikka’s federated XMPP server. So… mails should then be received in my mobile phone.

Easy does it, right? Well, not. Chikkatalk.com is indeed an XMPP server, but not a mail server:

[iandexter@hiraya ~]$ dig mx chikkatalk.com

; < <>> DiG 9.2.5 < <>> mx chikkatalk.com
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER< <- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 32086
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;chikkatalk.com.           IN   MX

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
chikkatalk.com.  10503 IN   SOA   ns1.chikka.com. »
   hostmaster.chikka.com.com. 2006060100 3600 600 604810 86400

;; Query time: 2 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.101#53(192.168.1.101)
;; WHEN: Fri Oct 27 00:53:32 2006
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 101

[iandexter@hiraya ~]$

Eep. Stupid me.

• AT^SCKS? - SIM connection
• AT+CSMS=1 - Message service
• AT+COPS? - Operator selection
• AT+CREG? - Network registration
• AT+CSQ - Signal strength
• AT&V - Status
• AT+CNMI=1,2,0,1,1 - Modem init string