Hi Jon Thank you very much for the detailed explanation. I'm not sure I understand all of it, but it'll be enough for me to begin talks with the phone carriers, I hope.
Actually, I know of a website, http://tweet.sg where users can register on the site and send sms' to a local number which results in posts to Twitter.com. I would like to work with the carriers to do exactly this, but without going through a third-party. Any other suggestions or comments would be welcome, thanks in advance! Sunny Chow www.tweetlah.sg On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Jon Spriggs <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Sunny, > > You need to ask that provider whether they provide, or would be able to > provide, an SMS-to-eMail gateway. > > The gateway needs to allow e-mails to send in the format: > [email protected] where the number is the phone number > your user will enter and name.of.mail.provider is an eMail domain like > sms-gateway.phoneco.com. This would allow your service to send SMS > messages to your users. > > For the return path, the service would need to be able to send e-mails to > you. The way it's currently configured, I think your users would have to > send to a specific e-mail address, which I think is unique per user. I don't > run my own instance of Laconica, so I can't be sure. > > Your other alternative for SMS messages in would be to set up some > arrangement with the phone carrier to deliver the messages to some service > running on your server. This service would translate the mobile number to a > username by looking at the system's databases and then processing that as an > "authenticated" message (as it's come from a difficult-to-spoof source). > > Sadly, this second service is not something which is pre-built in the > Laconica codebase, as the chances are it would be specific to the provider > and no-one else is doing anything like this (that I know of), so you'd > probably have to get someone to write it for you. > > I hope this gives you some more of the technical information that you need. > Anyone who's currently running the SMS side of things, can you confirm I'm > right? > > Rgds, > > -- > Jon ""The Nice Guy"" Spriggs LPIC-1 Certified > This message was sent from my mobile device. Please excuse any top posting > and typos that may occur as a result. > > On Jul 21, 2009 4:26 AM, "Sunny Chow" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, non-programmer here asking techie question: > I have a local-centric Laconica site catering to users in Singapore. I > would like to add my country's local mobile phone providers to the list so > that users can sms their tweets/notices to post on the site. > > How can I do this? > > I will be talking to one provider about doing this but need to know how to > present the requirements to them so they understand what needs to be done to > effect this. I would appreciate any help you can give me on this. > > Regards > > Sunny > www.tweetlah.sg > > > _______________________________________________ > Laconica-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.laconi.ca/mailman/listinfo/laconica-dev > >
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