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Alex Kaiser
Frequent Contributor
Username: Alex_k

Post Number: 167
Registered: 07-2006
Posted on Thursday, December 09, 2010 - 08:41 pm:   

Hi,

We faced a problem with scheduled messages, when we use "DelayUntil" parameter NowSMS charges, sets route and places message in the queue. But... BUT there's no way to control submitted messages: reroute (if SMSC's condition changes of even disappeares, customers can make delayd messages up to 6 months), broken statistics (SMSSend issued when message was submitted and if it's so long - impossible to track DR) or just cancel queued messages. What i'm thinking, we've already implemented HTTP pusher, all delayed messages got queued in it and when time comes our daemon pushes them away. Problem – we can’t forward proper message id to the customer in order to track DRs or we have to create a masquerade service (our id = nowsms msgid) but it’s so time consuming and so many faults possible. Fast solution – allow us to set up message ids for submitted messages, like some special parameter “NowSMSMsgId=”. Please let me know, what do you think about that issue.

Regards,
Alex K.
Des - NowSMS Support
Board Administrator
Username: Desosms

Post Number: 2716
Registered: 08-2008
Posted on Friday, December 10, 2010 - 11:13 am:   

Hi Alex,

I need to discuss this with engineering. Conceptually, I don't see any problem with an option to allow the submitter to assign the ID. It would be the submitter's fault if it reused an ID, and the submitter would need to ensure that they used a different format from NowSMS auto-generated IDs.

Hopefully engineering will not see any other issues.

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Des
NowSMS Support
Alex Kaiser
Frequent Contributor
Username: Alex_k

Post Number: 168
Registered: 07-2006
Posted on Wednesday, December 15, 2010 - 11:27 am:   

Hi Des,

I see potential problem here with concatenated messages, we have to calculate message parts.

Regards,
Alex K.
Alex Kaiser
Frequent Contributor
Username: Alex_k

Post Number: 178
Registered: 07-2006
Posted on Monday, January 24, 2011 - 05:07 pm:   

Hi Des,

Problem is still exist, any solution to resolve it?

Regards,
Alex K.
Des - NowSMS Support
Board Administrator
Username: Desosms

Post Number: 2862
Registered: 08-2008
Posted on Friday, January 28, 2011 - 12:53 am:   

Hi Alex,

Now that I re-read your original message, I don't see any good solutions other than disabling delayed messages. Or setting a limit to how far in the future they can be scheduled.

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Des
NowSMS Support