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| Radia Latief New member Username: Yofazza Post Number: 1 Registered: 08-2009 |
Hello, My boss wants to: #1: Send and receive SMS through 4 different numbers. #2: Use a laptop. #3: Read and send messages of each number in the most "user-friendly" way (eg: each number can have its own window). -- My plan on hardware: a laptop and 4 GSM modems. My plan on software: unsure -- Can I achieve the above by using nowsms? And how hard would it be? (I'm an IT person who loves to read manuals) Thank you, and sorry if I post in the wrong forum. | |||
| Des - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Desosms Post Number: 1162 Registered: 08-2008 |
Hi Radia, The "user-friendly" part is the toughest piece of your equation. NowSMS can definitely manage this setup ... but it's designed more as a middleware piece than something that an end-user interacts with directly. You basically wouldn't want you end-user messing around with NowSMS. If I was going to set something like this up using NowSMS, I'd either write a simple little program that just showed the user the received messages (text files in the "SMS-IN" directory), and let them send new messages or reply to received messages (issue HTTP request to NowSMS to send) ... or I would use an e-mail client as the user interface. When you use an e-mail client, NowSMS looks like a POP3 and SMTP mail server. Messages received on different numbers can be received into different mailboxes. And messages that are sent can go out from different numbers based upon which mailbox is sending the message. There's a lengthy (and somewhat confusing) chapter in the NowSMS manual that talks about e-mail setup. That description doesn't get into a multiple modem setup, so here are a few more things you would need to know about a multiple modem setup. 1.) For each modem, under its "Properties" in the "SMSC" list of NowSMS, be sure to define the "Phone Number" associated with that modem. (This does not have to be the actual phone number, it is a property for how NowSMS handles some internal routing for messages to/from this modem.) 2.) Also under "Properties" for the modem, you can specify that messages received via that modem get routed to a particular user account ("SMS Users"). That user account is able to connect via POP3 to receive the messages. 3.) When defining the "SMS Users" account, enable "SMTP" access (which allows POP3/SMTP connectivity for the account), and define the "Forced Sender Address" to match the "Phone Number" for the modem you want to be associated with this account. This "Forced Sender Address" means that when the e-mail user sends a message, it goes out via this sender number/modem. Let's see ... what else? When using an e-mail client to send/receive SMS like this, one thing that can confuse the e-mail client is that when you want to send an SMS you need to address it as "phonenumber@somedomain". "@somedomain" is a value that you make up for your installation. In this case, it might just be "@sms". NowSMS doesn't really need to see the "@sms", but most e-mail clients will require some sort of domain name in the address. -- Des NowSMS Support | |||
