How to prevent kannel from sending to the SMSC outside business hours

2008-09-22 Thread shaded 4
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

Re: How to prevent kannel from sending to the SMSC outside business hours

2008-09-22 Thread Alejandro Guerrieri
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,

Re: How to prevent kannel from sending to the SMSC outside business hours

2008-09-23 Thread shaded 4
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

Re: How to prevent kannel from sending to the SMSC outside business hours

2008-09-24 Thread Alejandro Guerrieri
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