Hi there,
a)
Is there *any* way at all to prevent kannel from
sending SMS messages to a SMSC outside of certain hours?
We're only allowed to send SMS messages to customers
during (for example) Mon-Fri 9am-5pm.
I don't think the 'deferred' or 'validity' options of sendsms
are useful in this situat
You should handle that kind of requirements at your application level.
Another option would be to shutdown the smsc connections (the messages will
be queued until the link goes up) but IMHO the best approach is to handle
this at your application and not at the gateway.
Regards,
Alejandro
On Mon,
Thanks Alejandro. Yes we certainly handle this at the application level,
but like I said it is extremely important to us that it is somehow handled
at the
kannel level as well - once kannel gets a SMS message into its
queue, I can't see an (explicit) way to tell kannel to not send the message
outsi
I can confirm there's no way to tell kannel not to send messages out on a
given time window.
When I suggested "shutdown the smsc connections" I was talking about the
"shutdown-smsc" command. It can bring a single SMSC connection down (check
the userguide for the fine details).
If you're running a