First time user questions

[Dogsbody]

Hi,

I'm a first time user of gnokii and all seems to be going ok but I have a couple 
of questions if I may.

Setup: Linux 2.2, DLR-3P data cable & Nokia 6210

I really just want to use this setup for SMS so that my machine can SMS me when 
something is wrong and I can send reminders/commands to my self/machine.


Q1: The initialisation seems to take quite a while when communicating with the 
phone.  I have set "connection = dlr3p" but that hasn't seemed to help.  Is this 
normal or is there something else I can do? (new data cable?)


Q2: I'm sure this is a common question but I can't seem to find a good answer in 
the archives.  Obviously I need to get the SMS messages off the phone, I would 
like to get them ASAP.  I have looked at smsd but even with the file option I 
cannot see any huge advantage of using...
  gnokii --getsms IN 1 -d 2>&1 | /script/that/does/stuff.pl
... in a cron job.  But even this isn't ideal as it will only deal with one 
message a minute and with the initialisation delay it seems overkill :-\


Thank you all very much for a great project, I hope my questions aren't silly.

Regards, Dan

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