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NowSMS Support Forums ⬆ NowSMS Support - SMS Issues ⬆ Archive through March 09, 2004 ⬆ |
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| Author | Message | |||
| Mark G Unregistered guest |
Hi, what is best way to broadcast a message to thousands of mobile clients using your product? thanks, mark | |||
| Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Bryce Post Number: 1833 Registered: 10-2002 |
Hi Mark, Apologies for the delay getting back to you. I don't know that there is any best way. If it is the same lists each time, then a lot of people like to use the Distribution lists facility in NowSMS: http://support.nowsms.com/discus/messages/1/225.html http://support.nowsms.com/discus/messages/1/383.html You can also submit a message via HTTP and include multiple phone numbers in the phone number field by separating the numbers with a "," (comma). However, in that interface, you must limit the list to 8000 characters per request, so for larger requests, you must break your request into separate smaller requests. -bn | |||
| Amir Lalji Unregistered guest |
Hi we are testing out your product for a push sms service for our clients. We are interested in broadcasting sms, each to different cell number (obviously)carrying a different message. Is there a way to achieve that where we can put a txt file and NOW gateway picks up the destination cell number, sends the specified msg, then move to next. Would appreciate a quick response Amir amir.lalji@nibpk.com | |||
| Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Bryce Post Number: 1889 Registered: 10-2002 |
Hi Amir, Unfortunately, we don't have a simple text based interface. Although as I think about it, it seems obvious that this is something that we should add to make bulk submissions easier. If your messages are simple text messages, I guess there is an interface that you could use. If you create a file with an extension of .REQ in the "Q" subdirectory of NowSMS, NowSMS will treat this as a message file, and send it out. The format of the .REQ file is a text file with the following required fields: [SMS] PhoneNumber=RecipientNumberHere Data=text of the message Other fields that can be included in this file under the [SMS] header are: Sender=SenderNumberHere UDH=HexStringWithUserDataHeader DCS=xx PID=xx Binary=1 (indicates that the message is binary, and the "Data" parameter is a hex string) Normally, only NowSMS creates these files in the Q directory, so it does expect any binary messages to be pre-encoded. But this interface could be quite convenient for posting text messages. -bn | |||
