SMPP message ID greater than 9223372036854775807 breaking DLRs

2023-08-03 Thread Alex Kinch
Hi all, I've run into an issue with a certain SMS provider (Nexmo/Vonage) that is using message IDs greater than 9223372036854775807 (e.g. 6142530091694509440651642911224527237), which is in turn breaking DLR processing in Kannel. They use hex in submit_sm_resp and decimal in deliver_sm so I have

Re: SMPP message ID greater than 9223372036854775807 breaking DLRs

2023-08-15 Thread Alex Kinch
pm, Mesbahuddin Malik wrote: > > Send your Smpp Config. > > On Sun, Aug 6, 2023 at 8:26 PM Alex Kinch wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I've run into an issue with a certain SMS provider (Nexmo/Vonage) that is >> using message IDs greater than 9223372036854

SSL handshake failure on smsbox service call to various https URLs

2024-05-17 Thread Alex Kinch
Hi all, I'm having odd problems when making an https request in an smsbox service (on latest compiled release from SVN and also Debian packages), I get back: 2024-05-17 15:14:25 [24] [9] ERROR: SSL write failed: OpenSSL error 1: error:0001:lib(0)::reason(1) 2024-05-17 15:14:25 [24] [9] ERROR:

Re: SSL handshake failure on smsbox service call to various https URLs

2024-05-20 Thread Alex Kinch
wrote: > check kannel ssl rule. > > regards > Mesbah > > On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 9:33 PM Alex Kinch wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I'm having odd problems when making an https request in an smsbox service >> (on latest compiled release from SVN and also

Re: Kannel fils to start with sqlbox configuration

2008-06-07 Thread Alex Kinch
I'm sure this was answered recently, however.. sqlbox-standalone config values shouldn't be in the main kannel.conf file. Move that section into it's own file (eg sqlbox.conf), make sure sqlbox is reading the right config file and bearerbox should be fine. hth, Alex On 7 Jun 2008, at 12:27

Re: compatibility

2005-11-03 Thread Alex Kinch
Maybe 'will Kannel support Nokia 6230i, 6600 or 3650 phones' :) On 11/3/05, Julien Buratto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Teo wrote:> Hi at all!>> Support Kannel the mobile phone Nokia 6230i or Nokia 6600 or 3650? >> Thanks!>> Matteo>What do U mean ? It's a strange question...J

sqlbox, smsbox-route and dlr rerouting help!

2006-05-02 Thread Alex Kinch
Hi,   Hopefully someone can solve this mystery for me. I'm using sqlbox compiled into cvs-20060424, using MySQL 4.1.18. Incoming messages weren't being routed into sqlbox, so I added:   group = smsbox-routesmsbox-id = smsboxsmsc-ids = "(smsc1);(smsc2)"  (smsc1) and (smsc2) being the names of some S

Re: sqlbox, smsbox-route and dlr rerouting help!

2006-05-02 Thread Alex Kinch
Sorry, my misunderstanding! But I seem to remember being able to run sqlbox on a previous build of Kannel (quite a while back) without any problems. But then I was sending messages via smsbox, not sqlbox.   Alex  On 5/2/06, Rene Kluwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sorry... let me correct this... I

Re: sqlbox, smsbox-route and dlr rerouting help!

2006-05-02 Thread Alex Kinch
s via smsbox or sqlbox 2. I think they changed behaviour bearerbox to require an ACK at the moment that delayed writing was introduced (if I am not mistaken).   Rene Kluwen Chimit   -Original Message-From: Alex Kinch [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: dinsdag 2 mei 2006 21:20To: Rene KluwenCc: user

Re: sqlbox, smsbox-route and dlr rerouting help!

2006-05-05 Thread Alex Kinch
5/3/06, Rene Kluwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think what happening is:   MO traffic is routed to your smsbox (through sqlbox). DLR's are routed to sqlbox and end there.   Rene Kluwen Chimit -Original Message-From: Alex Kinch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Sent: dinsdag 2

Re: DLR : why I got this log on smsclogfile?

2006-05-05 Thread Alex Kinch
It's because you have received a delivery report that doesn't match up to anything in Kannel's DLR table. Try sending a message, noting down the message id that Kannel logs to the DLR table, then see what DLR it is looking for when the report comes back. It's possible that you'll need to use the ms

Re: DLR : why I got this log on smsclogfile?

2006-05-05 Thread Alex Kinch
something else could be used as well  ?   Thanks, Ilija           - Original Message - From: Alex Kinch To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: users@kannel.org Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 5:06 PM Subject: Re: DLR : why I got this log on smsclogfile?   It's because you have received a delivery report that d

Re: dlr

2006-05-12 Thread Alex Kinch
If you send via sqlbox doing an insert into the database, it *should* use dlr-url. However, I don't think that bit is written yet :) You will probably also see problems with DLRs getting stuck in the kannel store as sqlbox does not 'ack' them to bearerbox.   Alex  On 5/12/06, Roman Yeryomin <[EMAI

Re: sqlbox, smsbox-route and dlr rerouting help!

2006-05-12 Thread Alex Kinch
Hi Anselmo,   Yes I did get your email, sorry I meant to reply with some more in depth information but got sidetracked on other things.  The problem I see is:  1. Insert message into sqlbox send_sms table 2. sqlbox picks it up, passes it to bearerbox 3. bearerbox passes it via smpp to carrier   All

Re: SMPP 3.4 Optional params

2006-06-05 Thread Alex Kinch
There was an Mblox patch floating around a while back that might be a good starting point for these custom parameters.   Perhaps its a good time to do something a bit more permanent to the SMPP driver and the rest of Kannel so it supports the addition of carrier-specific 'optional' parameters? Ther

Re: SMSC rejected login to transmit (bind failed)??

2006-06-22 Thread Alex Kinch
Not wishing to sound a bit blunt, but the words in the log'SMSC rejected login to transmit'Should give you a clue :)Check the login details with your provider, including system-type as it matters for some providers that you use what they give you. AlexOn 6/22/06, Raul Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Wap push sanity check

2006-08-18 Thread Alex Kinch
Hello, Seem to be having some problems with WAP push. The code to construct the UDH and message is below. It used to work, but then somewhere along the line it stopped. Tried to both Nokia and SonyEricsson handsets, and both are ignoring the message. If someone could take a look and make sure m

Wap push sanity check

2006-08-18 Thread Alex Kinch
Hello, Seem to be having some problems with WAP push. The code to construct the UDH and message is below. It used to work, but then somewhere along the line it stopped. Tried to both Nokia and SonyEricsson handsets, and both are ignoring the message. If someone could take a look and make sure m

Provider doesnt want + on destination MSISDN

2006-08-20 Thread Alex Kinch
Hello list, I've just had an email from a provider who wants me to test their service. I tried last week and it failed on all messages I sent.. but they've said now that it's because I put a + in front of the destination MSISDN. I've always done this, and thought it was standard. Can someone be

SMSC number query

2006-08-20 Thread Alex Kinch
If anyone has access to the SS7 layer, a lookup service, or has a good memory for these things.. can you find out which carriers SMSC is +79023200155? It's somewhere in Russia by the looks of it. Thanks, Alex

Re: Wap push sanity check

2006-08-22 Thread Alex Kinch
ECTED]> wrote: Hello, does PPG work ? Aarno On 18 Aug 2006, at 23:12, Alex Kinch wrote: > Hello, > > Seem to be having some problems with WAP push. The code to construct > the UDH and message is below. It used to work, but then somewhere > along the line it stopped. > >

HLR lookup for number portability

2006-08-23 Thread Alex Kinch
Hello, Just putting together a proposal for a new service, would there be any interest from people here for a service that will do an HLR lookup against an MSISDN and return a MCC/MNC? I know there was talk about an HLR box or plugin for Kannel, but not sure it ever went much further forward tha

Re: Getting the PDU sequence number or any identification number..

2006-08-31 Thread Alex Kinch
Or alternatively, you could use a range of MSISDNs for the outbound, log what MSISDN you are sending to user2 from, so when they reply you route that message back to user1 with a from number of the MSISDN. Keep that record of what MSISDN you used for the conversation for those two users for a pred

Re: udh record

2006-09-20 Thread Alex Kinch
I've used this in the past to clean up Kannels UDH into something more normal: function cleanudh($udh) { $udh = urlencode($udh); $udh = str_replace("%","",$udh); return($udh); } On 9/20/06, Boardmain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, why in my php script im not able to g

Re: R: udh record

2006-09-20 Thread Alex Kinch
On 9/20/06, Boardmain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Perfect , it work... u are able to recive crrectly long messages? (u have a script ho take all parts into one big sms?) -Messaggio originale- Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Per conto di Alex Kinch Inviato: mercoledì 20 settem

Re: store messages

2006-09-21 Thread Alex Kinch
Can I make a suggestion? If you're not already subscribed to the kannel-devel list, get yourself hooked up and jump on the thread that's discussing this patch. With any new feature it's important to get real world feedback, so if you're having problems I'm sure the original patch creator will be a

Concatenation and I-Mate JAMin' Windows Mobile phones

2006-10-10 Thread Alex Kinch
Hi, Having a problem with I-Mate JAMin' handsets not being able to reassemble messages that have been concatenated by Kannel. Everything looks ok, and other handsets are reassembling ok. Also sending from another handset to this one works, and it reassembles ok too. Just seems to be having troubl

Re: Concatenation and I-Mate JAMin' Windows Mobile phones

2006-10-11 Thread Alex Kinch
l try and find out a little more, although I get the feeling this might be a slow process as it's such a weird problem! I will send the SMPP PDUs from the bearerbox box to the list later today when I get a chance. Alex On 10/11/06, Stipe Tolj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Alex, Alex K

bearerbox -> smsbox retry if smsbox is unavailable

2006-11-01 Thread Alex Kinch
Hi, If I start everything like this: bearerbox (wait 2 seconds) sqlbox (wait 2 seconds) smsbox Then any messages that bearerbox has received via SMPP in the period while sqlbox and smsbox are starting are dumped to the store. However, the problem is these messages seem to remain in the store, a

Re: Kannel installation problems

2006-11-01 Thread Alex Kinch
Hi Arun, Can I make a suggestion? Kannel 1.3.2 is now over two years old - we're now up to 1.4.1-stable. I know you don't really want to use binaries, but unless someone has kindly made some for Redhat then I think you'd be better off with compiling it from source. Hope that helps, Alex On 10/

Re: bearerbox -> smsbox retry if smsbox is unavailable

2006-11-02 Thread Alex Kinch
Hi Ben Looking at the status you showed with them queued in smsbox, this basically means that smsbox has not returned an ack to bearerbox. It suggests to me that either sqlbox is not passing the ack back to bererbox (assuming you are connecting smsbox to sqlbox and not directly), or that smsbox

Re: Making sure DLR's are processed by multiple SMSC Connections.

2006-11-06 Thread Alex Kinch
Change the smsc-id to all be the same. I do it for 3 x SMPP links and it works well for DLRs.. On 11/6/06, Thomas Göttgens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, we are maintaining 5 symmetrical links to our UCP uplink to maximize throughput. The setup is as follows: group = smsc smsc = emi smsc-id

Re: Re[2]: Making sure DLR's are processed by multiple SMSC Connections.

2006-11-06 Thread Alex Kinch
... or in a Kannel FAQ :) runs away quick in case anyone thinks I just volunteered to write one! :) On 11/6/06, Thomas Göttgens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Alex, thanks, that did the trick and should be in userguide ;-) Monday, November 6, 2006, 10:23:05 PM, you wrote: AK> Change the sm

Re: sqlbox

2006-11-07 Thread Alex Kinch
Three words. We want logs :) Not me personally as I probably wouldn't be able to help, but if you can provide as much information as possible - including details of the segmentation fault - that would be useful. Also operating system, hardware, versions, etc etc.. Alex On 11/7/06, Eyram Schwin

Re: HLR lookup for number portability

2006-11-09 Thread Alex Kinch
SOAP - a simple HTTP request should do. Guess the next question is how to interface it to Kannel. Also, what sort of cost would you be likely to pay for such a service - I was thinking no setup or monthly fee, and just billing for queries. Thoughts? Alex On 8/23/06, Alex Kinch <[EMAIL PR

Re: HLR lookup for number portability

2006-11-09 Thread Alex Kinch
Hi Ben, I think the protocol you use will be dependent somewhat on the average length of time for the lookup. There is more overhead in having to have 2 connection setups (1 outbound and 1 inbound) than in just the one. But it probably comes down to volumes as well, and if the calling applicatio

Re: HLR lookup for number portability

2006-11-09 Thread Alex Kinch
On 11/9/06, Ben Suffolk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Blocking is an idea, but as you're basically doing a an SS7 query to > the remote operators HLR it's possible the HLR may not respond or > take a little while to respond. That's where caching comes into play. Indeed. I think if you are planni

Re: sendsms unknown command

2006-12-26 Thread Alex Kinch
Check your config, 13000 is by default the admin port, 13013 is where smsbox should be listening - and therefore where you should find /cgi-bin/sendsms lives. http://localhost:13013/cgi-bin/sendsms etc should work. Alex On 12/26/06, Pradnya Nimje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello list,

monitoring kannel

2007-01-16 Thread Alex Kinch
Hello all, What does everyone else here use for monitoring their kannel boxen? I mean things like SMSCs down, queues getting too high, etc. Alex

Re: SMSC throughput with SMPP protocol

2007-01-30 Thread Alex Kinch
All depends on what your provider sets as a throttle - we have SMPP connections that can quite happily handle thousands of messages a minute. It's not uncommon for a network to set an entry level limit of one or two messages a second on an SMPP connection. Alex On 1/30/07, Narendran K <[EMAIL PR

Re: Masking originating addresses

2007-01-30 Thread Alex Kinch
All depends on how you're sending your messages. Most decent providers will allow setting the sender number on an SMPP, HTTP, etc connection. I've never heard of a network that'll allow you to do that on a GSM modem or handset, but then again stranger things have happened.. :) Alex On 1/29/07, D

SS7 SMSC assistance required

2007-04-13 Thread Alex Kinch
Hello, I know a few people on the list have done this.. if you have experience of rolling your own SS7 SMSC could you drop me a note off-list? Thanks, Alex

Strange problem with accents on MO

2007-04-14 Thread Alex Kinch
Doing a little testing this afternoon with accents on MO, and came across a strange problem. I'm sending the following from my Nokia E61: Test aäæåàáâãa When it appears in our database, we've got: Test aäæåà So áâãa are arriving as just a. The PDU is pasted below. Noticing the last four

Re: Strange problem with accents on MO

2007-04-14 Thread Alex Kinch
OK ignore me, I've just noticed it's not in the GSM 7-bit alphabet. Too much sunshine has got to my brain.. :) On 4/14/07, Alex Kinch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Doing a little testing this afternoon with accents on MO, and came across a strange problem. I'm sending the fo

concatenation woes

2007-04-15 Thread Alex Kinch
Hello, I'm trying to write a PHP script to concatenate messages to pass to Kannel. It works to the point that the message gets to the phone, but then the phone says it cannot display the message when I try to open it. Here's what I'm sending: Message 1: UDH: %05%00%03%EA%02%01 Message: This is

Re: concatenation woes

2007-04-15 Thread Alex Kinch
atting. Check the user guide for the "max-messages" parameter. Hope it helps, Alejandro. On 4/15/07, Alex Kinch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to write a PHP script to concatenate messages to pass to > Kannel. It works to the point that the me

HLR lookup - who seriously wants it?

2007-04-16 Thread Alex Kinch
Hello all I've talked to a few people from this list who expressed an interest in HLR lookup, but never really went too much further. So, here's the deal. If you're interested, please shout. If you're seriously interested, shout very loud, mail me off-list and let me know how many lookups per da

[OT] I want to give you traffic!

2007-04-16 Thread Alex Kinch
I figured it's time to expand our SMSC connections, so if anyones got an SMPP server available and can fire me across a coverage list and prices, let's talk :) Also, if anyone wants high quality routes at a good price, shout too. We can only do HTTP/S at the moment, but if there's justification f

Re: reply-to address

2007-04-19 Thread Alex Kinch
+1 from me. On 4/19/07, Iain Dooley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi all, i don't know about anyone else but i would prefer if the reply-to address for this list was [EMAIL PROTECTED] i accidentally send messages to the original sender quite a bit ... anyone else? cheers iain

MCC/MNC codes

2003-07-15 Thread Alex Kinch
Anyone got an up-to-date list of all the GSM operator's MCC/MNC codes they can mail me? There seem to be a few copies lying around the web, but it'd be good to have an up to date version.   Thanks Alex

[OT] Bulk SMS prices to UK networks

2003-09-15 Thread Alex Kinch
Hi,   Apologies for the [OT] message, but I need to put approx 20k messages a month (and growing steadily) to UK destinations. Any suggestions off-list please.   Thanks, Alex

Destination lookup by mobile prefix

2003-09-15 Thread Alex Kinch
Hello again,   Slightly more on-topic.. is there anyone out there that can provide a facility where we can lookup the network destination (eg O2, Vodafone) by prefix in realtime - eg an XML or SQL call? Mainly interested in the UK networks, but any offers appreciated.   Thanks, Alex

EMI2 SMSC - does this look rigiht?

2003-09-22 Thread Alex Kinch
Hi list,   We've just configured our first EMI2 SMSC, however messages sent to it via the HTTP interface on smsbox don't seem to be getting through. Does this look right (from the debug log)?   2003-09-22 22:15:19 [14] DEBUG: EMI2[]: emi2 sending packet: <00/00116/O/51/447764xx/1420

Cannot find SMSCConn

2003-10-09 Thread Alex Kinch
  OK I know this is a stupid question, and I should really know the answer, but here goes.   I've got multiple SMSCs configured, and when I receive a message on one, smsbox tries to reply and fails with:    WARNING: Cannot find SMSCConn for message to <+44xx>, rejected.   There's some

Re: Cannot find SMSCConn

2003-10-09 Thread Alex Kinch
Don't worry, fixed it. Put a "," instead of a ";" in the allowed-smscs bit.   I'm off to lie down in dark room now :-)   Alex - Original Message - From: Alex Kinch To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 6:50 PM

Charset problem with a particular SMPP SMSC

2003-10-13 Thread Alex Kinch
Hi,   We're experiencing problems with one particular SMPP SMSC, with random characters being added on the end of messages. They've tracked it down to an incorrect character set encoding.   They reckon our DCS value is set wrong, and it needs to be 0x00 or 0x11 for Latin15, or 0x01 for IA5.

DLR problems with Hex vs Decimal message IDs

2003-10-17 Thread Alex Kinch
Hi,   One of our SMSCs is returning message IDs in the submit_sm_resp in hex - eg B29282 - but the DLRs are coming back in decimal - eg 0011702914. This is causing problems with Kannel with the MySQL queries on the DLR database, as it can't find the related message.   Any quick fixes I can ma

Re: DLR problems with Hex vs Decimal message IDs

2003-10-17 Thread Alex Kinch
Actually, it's more than one SMSC - I've just got out my calculator and done some hex-dec conversions and found it's happening quite a lot now that I've turned on DLR support.   Alex - Original Message ----- From: Alex Kinch To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: DLR problems with Hex vs Decimal message IDs

2003-10-17 Thread Alex Kinch
Ok, another brain dead day. Off to go hang my head in shame after RTFM :-) msg-id-typenumber - Optional, specifies which number base the SMSC is using for the message ID numbers in the corresponding submit_sm_resp and deliver_sm PDUs. Alex - Original Message - From: Alex Kinch To

SMPP peer naming conventions

2003-10-20 Thread Alex Kinch
Wondered what sort of naming convention other people on this list with lots of SMPP connections use?  Was thinking:   [CarrierName(4)][IsoCountryCode(2)][ConnectionNo(2)][ConnectionType(2)]   Eg O2 UK, connection #2, premium rate would be:   O2GB02PR   Thoughts, recommendations etc welcome!  

Connecting to operator MMSCs in the UK

2003-10-22 Thread Alex Kinch
Hi gang,   Slightly off-topic, but is anyone here connecting to a UK operator's MMSC with a direct IP connection of some sort? Orange have advised that they are testing a product that'll allow this, but it won't be available until sometime in the first half of next year. Haven't spoken to O2

Re: Connecting to operator MMSCs in the UK

2003-10-22 Thread Alex Kinch
, 2003 6:15 PM Subject: Re: Connecting to operator MMSCs in the UK On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 06:07:58PM +0100, Alex Kinch wrote:> Slightly off-topic, but is anyone here connecting to a UK operator's MMSC with> a direct IP connection of some sort? Orange have advised th

Re: Connecting to operator MMSCs in the UK

2003-10-22 Thread Alex Kinch
r 22, 2003 8:03 PM Subject: Re: Connecting to operator MMSCs in the UK does anyone have any links to docs about SOAP interfaces provided by theuk mobile companies?>>> "Alex Kinch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/22/03 6:30 PM >>>Hi SteveHold on two secs thoug

Splitting problems sending operator logo to Nokia 5110

2003-10-23 Thread Alex Kinch
Hi, I've been working on operator logo stuff this evening, and I've got it pretty much cracked. However, when I send a logo that requires splitting over two messages, it all goes a bit wrong. I'm testing all this out on an old-ish Nokia 5110. When I send a small logo, it picks it up fine as an op

Re: Splitting problems sending operator logo to Nokia 5110

2003-10-24 Thread Alex Kinch
Hi Jacques   Thanks for the email, looks like that utility that I found to convert BMP to operator logo format hex doesn't work after all, which would explain why the logo isn't working!   Alex - Original Message - From: Jacques Caron To: Alex Kinch

Messages stuck in store

2003-11-10 Thread Alex Kinch
Hi,   Seen a couple of instances in the last few days when messages have got "stuck" in the store - at a guess due to the relevent SMPP connection being temporarily unavailable at the time they were submitted via smsbox.   Is there a way to set bearerbox up to attempt to resend store message

Re: sms-service

2003-11-13 Thread Alex Kinch
Hi Alex,   We're doing that on Kannel cvs-20031112 for nine different smsc's, works fine:   group = sms-servicekeyword = defaultget-url = ""http://yoururl/page.asp?from=%p&to=%P&keyword=%k&body=%r&mccmnc=%B&smscid=%i&fullbody=%a">http://yoururl/page.asp?from=%p&to=%P&keyword=%k&body=%r&mccmnc=

Re: sms-service

2003-11-14 Thread Alex Kinch
Title: Message I'm sure you can do this. Let me get my brain in gear later and I'll reply to this email.   Alex - Original Message - From: Jens von Bülow To: Alex Kinch ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 4:25 AM S

Re: sms-service

2003-11-14 Thread Alex Kinch
Title: Message Add in something like:   allowed-receiver-prefix = ;   Into your sms-service group should do the trick. I haven't had a chance to test it yet, but will try and find time over the weekend and give it a go.   Alex - Original Message - From: Alex Kinch

DLR REJECTD error code 93

2003-11-24 Thread Alex Kinch
Hi,   Anyone got a Logica DLR error code list handy? I'm getting REJECTD err:093 back from one of our SMSCs on messages sent by a particular customer through our platform.   Alex

Re: DLR REJECTD error code 93

2003-11-24 Thread Alex Kinch
Don't worry, fixed it. The messages were being sent with an initial space on the front, which was causing them to fail.   Alex - Original Message - From: Alex Kinch To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 12:27 PM Subject: DLR REJECTD error co

Re: Munging the '@' (at) symbol?

2003-11-25 Thread Alex Kinch
Troy,   We had the same problem on a particular provider - it wasn't just @ that was disappearing, but also pound signs, and other random symbols. Talk to the people who you connect to, and ask them what character set they support. We fixed ours by setting the charset to HP Roman 8 - but it

Re: SQLBOX [Was Re: Feature request: storing incoming/outgoingmessagesin database]

2004-01-16 Thread Alex Kinch
Hi, I put an offer on rentacoder.com for someone to do this - unfortunately the only response was from a programmer who had quite a low rating (to say the least!). The plan was to get it developed, do a bit of testing then pass it back to anyone on the list who'd want to test it - then finall

Re: SQLBOX [Was Re: Feature request: storingincoming/outgoingmessagesin database]

2004-01-16 Thread Alex Kinch
PS: http://www.rentacoder.com/RentACoder/misc/BidRequests/ShowBidRequest.asp?lngBidRequestId=114460 if anyone wants to take up the offer :-) - Original Message - From: Alex Kinch To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 10:52 PM Subject: Re: SQLBOX

Re: SQLBOX [Was Re: Feature request:storingincoming/outgoingmessagesin database]

2004-01-18 Thread Alex Kinch
Hi Rene   I think Stipe was working on something before Christmas, but some nasty non-C-programming car thiefs stole his laptop.   Still haven't had any other offers, so you're welcome to take up the offer. Of course comments from Stipe, Alex, everyone else would be appreciated :-) Alex

Re: DLR problems....

2004-01-30 Thread Alex Kinch
Dave, Add "msg-id-type = 0x01" to the smsc group where you've got your MBlox connections, and it should do the trick. Alex - Original Message - From: "Dave Holmes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 12:28 PM Subject: DLR problems > Guys, > >

Re: Specifying a number when sending SMS

2004-02-10 Thread Alex Kinch
John,   I understand you're on a tight budget, but there are providers out there that'll give you the ability to set your own "from" number on a SMPP connection - and won't charge you any rental or setup for the service (you obviously have to pay for the texts!). Not a recommendation as such

[off-topic] OTA SIM update

2004-02-23 Thread Alex Kinch
Hi gang,   Hopefully someone can enlighten me on this one. What exactly can be changed by an over-the-air SIM update? Would it be possible for a non-GSM network operator (eg spammers!) to send SIM updates? Had a few emails from people today saying they'd got SIM updates from Orange, and when

Re: SMS & TCP/IP

2004-02-26 Thread Alex Kinch
Hi Richard, >From experience you have to be doing quite a large amount of traffic per month before you can get a direct IP connection to a networks SMSC. Some also will charge you lots of money in setup and monthly access, so you have to weigh up the options. Understand what you mean about compet

HLR lookup

2004-02-27 Thread Alex Kinch
Hi gang,   Can't remember who it was, but someone on here said they could do HLR lookups on UK MSISDNs to find out what network they're on. Got a customer who wants to do about 1m lookups a month. Replies off-list please!   Thanks Alex

Re: Front End for Kannel

2004-03-31 Thread Alex Kinch
I know Rene Kluwen has been working on a sqlbox project for Kannel that should do what you want, although can't remember how far he got. We've done some testing on our side and it seems to work, but you'd be best to ask him yourself. Or wait until he reads this message on the list and he'll reply :

Re: Newbie too thick to understand Kannel

2004-10-19 Thread Alex Kinch
Hi Colin, Here's how we do it: 1. Log the message within our application to a database. 2. Retrieve the unique record id for that message. 3. Pass the record id as part of the DLR URL to Kannel 4. When Kannel receives a DLR for that message, it updates your app via HTTP passing that message id as