KANNEL(8)

💖 KANNEL(8) — the group chat version 💖

okay bestie, sit DOWN, because this is the manual page for Kannel, and it is lowkey iconic. It lives in section 8 of the manual (that's the sysadmin/daemon girlies section, iykyk), and it comes to you straight from the Kannel Project. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

bearerbox, wapbox, smsbox — the three little icons that make up Kannel, the WAP and SMS gateway. 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

bearerbox [options...] [conffile]

wapbox [options...] [conffile]

smsbox [options...] [conffile]

so basically all three of them take [options...] and then optionally a [conffile], periodt. 💅

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

Kannel is a WAP and SMS gateway. Not me stating the obvious but like, it's literally the whole point. 💖

WAP is short for Wireless Application Protocol, and it's the thing used to implement hypertext based services on mobile phones. So like, tiny little web pages but for your flip phone era. ✨

SMS is short for Short Message Service, and it's what you use to send and receive short text messages — up to 160 characters, no more no less, that's the limit bestie — with mobile phones. 📱 And ngl, SMS can also be used to implement simple text based services on mobile phones. text-based slay. 🫶

Now here's the tea: Kannel consists of three programs, usually run as daemons. 👑

• bearerbox — implements the connection to the phone (SMS or UDP)
• wapbox — implements the WAP protocol stack
• smsbox — implements the SMS based services

three boxes, three jobs, one gateway, main character energy fr fr. 🎀

💜 For more information, see http://www.kannel.org or file:///usr/share/doc/kannel/.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• run_kannel_box(8)
• seewbmp(1)

go read those too bestie, they're part of the lore. 📚

and that's the whole page, you ate that 🍓✨ this one's from the <strong>Kannel Project</strong>, dated <strong>3rd October 2000</strong>, and it goes by <strong>KANNEL(8)</strong> — mwah, ily, go gateway responsibly 💖💅🦋