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Novice boy
Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2003 - 12:33 pm:   

I am quite new to MMS field, and I am plannning
to use Now SMS/MMS Gateway as the test environment
of my MMS Client development.

What I want to do is to connect to MMS Gateway from MMS Client simulator on PC, and want to
send message or receive notification.

I would like to know is, if I need to connect to
commecrcial SMSC or not.

Thank you.
Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support (Bryce)
Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2003 - 05:57 pm:   

Good luck.

I wish I had a better answer for you ... but ...

So far I haven't seen an MMS client simulator that could receive MMS messages via standard mechanisms. (For example, the Nokia toolkit scans a directory that you place message files in.)

From the web menu interface, we do allow you to send WAP push messages and MMS messages to an IP address instead of a phone number.

I've seen emulators that could handle a WAP push message (for example, the default "ugly" phone in the Nokia toolkit can receive a WAP push), but not one that could receive an MMS which is actually transported over WAP push.

In the IP environment, a client that wishes to receive WAP push messages (and MMS notifications since they are transported over WAP push) needs to listen to UDP port 2948.

You can use NETSTAT -a to find out what ports are being listened to on your computer. It's a handy way of seeing whether or not an emulator is even listening for WAP push.

If you find one that is, other than the one I mentioned above, let us know, as we'd like to do some testing with it.

-bn
Novice boy
Posted on Friday, March 14, 2003 - 04:31 am:   

Thank you for the information.

The MMS Client simulator on PC is developed by
ourselves which connects to LAN via WAP1.x.

I want to use "Now SMS MMSC" from the simulator
through WAP GW (Kannel).

Simulator -> Kannel -> MMSC

I would like to know if your MMSC can be used
for this purpose.
Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support (Bryce)
Posted on Friday, March 14, 2003 - 11:22 pm:   

For receiving messages on the simulator:

If you're developing the MMS client simulator, and your client simulator listens for WAP push over IP (UDP port 2948) ... then yes, you can do it.

At the current time, we only support WAP push and MMS to an IP address when you submit the message through the web menu interface.

For sending messages from the simulator:

That's generally not a problem. The only problem is that we only support sending the message to a phone number or an e-mail address (not an IP address). So you could send from the simulator to an e-mail address ... or a real phone (if you have SMS connectivity) ... but not back to the simulator itself.

-bn