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NowSMS Support Forums ⬆ MMS & SMS Technical Discussions (unsupported) ⬆ Archive through August 08, 2004 ⬆ |
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| Anonymous |
Hi. I see that replies to sent SMS messages go into a folder called SMS-IN with the extension .sms. How on earth do I read these messages, the web interface only seems to allow for sending options and not for receiving options? Did I miss something that is so obvious it's making me look silly? Regards, Wayne. | |||
| Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Bryce Post Number: 2499 Registered: 10-2002 |
Hi Wayne, Apologies for the delay in responding to your message. There are some different discussion forums on our discussion board, some are monitored for product support, and some are for general technical discussions. Unfortunately, we do not visit this technical discussions area as frequently. What do you want to do with the received SMS messages? Usually, received messages are processed by an application. This behaviour is controlled in the "2-way" command table. So, generally speaking, a received SMS message would trigger a program to be run, or an HTTP script to be executed, for further processing of the message. If you're not interested in any of that, it is also possible to configure a "2-way" command that forwards the received SMS message to an e-mail address. The following link talks more about defining these "2-way" commands: http://www.nowsms.com/documentation/ProductDocumentation/2_way_sms_support.htm If you just wanted to forward all received messages to an e-mail address, you would do the following: Add a command where the "SMS Command Prefix" is "*". If "Received Phone Number(s)" appears as a setting in the dialog (v5.50 or later of NowSMS), then either leave this field blank, or put a "*". ("*" is used as a wildcard character to indicate "all".) Then in the "Command to Execute" field, specify "mailto:user@domain.com", where user@domain.com is the e-mail address that you want to send the message to. To enable this feature, the "MMSC" service must be enabled, and an "SMTP Relay Host" must be defined on the "MMSC" page of the configuration dialog. If you are only forwarding received SMS to your own e-mail address, this "SMTP Relay Host" can be the host name or IP address of your mail server. | |||
