Here in switzerland, the main provider IP-Plus maintains an sms gateway.
It can be used by registered customers with a mail address like
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]". Registration checks your IP address range.
To control my customers' sms traffic, I wrote a quick-and-dirty solution to
accept sms messages on my IMail server and re-route them to the
sms.ip-plus.net gateway. Example:
sms messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] are re-routed to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
This was done with a program alias which reads the mail, replaces the target
adress and re-sends the mail using a batch script.
Marius
-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Keen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 2:11 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] on and off the topic..
Thanks Len,
That is on my list of must get round to..... - does anyone ever get around
to things, on must do lists!!
Ryan
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Len Conrad
Sent: 21 June 2000 12:49
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] on and off the topic..
>Does anyone know if you can 'bolt' on to the side of IMAIL a SMS to GSM
text
>msg service?
>A lot of my users would like to see this service, but I am unsure...
>
>Any Ideas - please post on or off this list - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Maybe a Imail program alias? User sends a msg to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
box, which is an pgm alias. The pgm behind the alias reads the msg
contents and sends an SMS msg.
The security and accounting issues are not to be ignored. ie, how do you
authenticate senders as having access to the SMS mailbox (spammers could
cost you a ton in SMS charges!!) and block those that don't, knowing that
all SMTP msg headers are not to be trusted, are spoofable? how do you log
the SMS sending service, to prove you sent a msg? to bill the msgs
sent? how do you handle "wrong numbers"?
I just went to google.com, entered "sms" in English, and got this URL as
first hit, vbg:
http://www.mtnsms.com/
google.com is getting me great results for techie type stuff.
-----
btw, Ryan, did you ever get that mail delivered to .ch that was rejected
because you had no A record, because you still don't:
# dig science-int.co.uk a
; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> science-int.co.uk a
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUERY SECTION:
;; science-int.co.uk, type = A, class = IN
Len
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