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NowSMS Support Forums ⬆ NowSMS Support - SMS Issues ⬆ Archive through September 15, 2003 ⬆ |
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| lars mservice |
Got quite a problem on my hands. My idea is to have several modems on my nowsmsserver. Lets say i have two mms services where people can send mms. Eg. a competition where they can send whatever in to me. Now lets say i am running 2 different competitions. Each competition has its own phonenumber, because the customers wants it that way. So i got a problem now. Because nowsms puts all MMS in one directory, regarding what modem they came from. But i think i've got a solution for you Bryce. Lets say i got two modems. i cname them com1 and com2. When you put a mms in the MMS-IN direcory, you give the .hdr-file, and the subfolder a unique file/foldername. How about calling them eg. 3EDBC95A_com1.hdr ? I could then split on the "_" and see what modem it came from. Or you could put into the .hdr-file who it was sent to? The idea is to have several services running, but still put all the MMS files into same directory. | |||
| Kent Williams |
Lars, Bryce is probably going to be off-line until early next week. Wouldn't the To header in the MMS message indicate which number the message was addressed to? - Kent Williams Now Wireless Support | |||
| lars mservice |
Hi Kent. No! Try it yourself. In the .HDR file there is no information on who the mms is sent to. So there is actually no way to recognize where or which modem the mms came from. Your next answer might be that you would make people write a keyword in the subject field, and that way recognize it. But i discovered that it is not all phones that sends the subject field along the mms. For an example my Panasonic GD87 does not. So the only way to be running several mms services using nowsms, is to have one service on one server. So if i had 10 customers that wanted to run some of my new mms services, i should buy 10 servers, and 10 licenses for nowsms. Way too expendsive! What i would suggest to you was that nowsms writes into the .hdr file which modem or number that received the mms. Then i could do many services on one server. If you think of what mms will be used for now and in future, it is not to download ringtones, or logos. This is done via wap push. I think that mms will be used to take pictures and send them along. Later we will have small videos etc. So to make services for mms that we can resell to our customers, we must base them from that. And i personally think that different competitions whre users can send funny pics etc. will be good business. And i really need nowsms for this. Best Lars  | |||
| lars mservice |
Anyone? | |||
| Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support |
Lars, This whole area is being reworked in the next release. When an MMS message is received, we'll have some options for further routing of the message (sent to an app via MM7, MM4/SMTP or MM1, in addition to the current file based approach). To work those hooks, we need to have clear routing information for how the message was received. So for GSM modems, we'll be inserting the phone number configured for that modem connection in as the "To:" header before further processing of the message. It is interesting that you are currently getting so far in your efforts. In the areas where we do development, the operator MMSCs are firewalled off, so we've had very limited success receiving messages that were not sent through our own MMSC. As we've added the ability to initiate GPRS modem connections and fetch MMS message content through WAP gateway connections over GPRS in the upcoming release, we are now getting a better look at these types of issues. -bn | |||
| lars mservice |
I have been running for 2 weeks now with a none gprs-modem and simcard. I can receive mms messages from Orange and Telia on that. They send out notifications and does not look to see what kind of simcard you have. The other 2 telcos here in Denmark, does it different. I dont know what they do, but if the phone is not gprs, they send a sms where there is is a link to the mms message. Then you will have to own a computer to see it. My guess is that they look at my phone/sim to see if it is gprs or gsm. If gprs=true then they send the mms notification to me, and if not true then they send the sms. I do have a gprs modem, but i have not had the time to set it up yet, but i will do it within this week. Your idea of the To: field is good. Yes, i have come quite a way with my MMS stuff. My mms competition system is really cool. I will have a demosite running soon, then you can have a look. | |||
