Where does SMS-GSM come into play say as opposed to the Email to Pager
option in Imail?
Kevin
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From: "Ryan Keen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 8:11 AM
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-----
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> [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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