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| supi Unregistered guest |
Hi Bryce, I've been doing some research on an SMS gateway that would enable our users send and and receieve SMS messages. NowSMS has a lot of features that I know will make this possible. Here is what we are trying to do, and I'd like your input please. Some questions: Automated process of adding user accounts to NowSMS so they can send SMS text messages only. I'd like to interact with the gateway's API to create an SMS account when we create accounts on our portal. This would save us from manually logging into the server and creating accounts. Since we have a bunch of users in a SQL database, what is the easiest way to import these accouts into the gateway? Since NowSMS will have only one number, external Nokia GSM modem connected to TMobile, how do we enabled, rather route messages to individual NowSMS users when an SMS is received by the gateway - given it has only one number? This assumes that we have 2-way SMS enabled. If we have a domain, i.e. mydomain.com, do we need to setup SMTP on the gateway? Also, can we intergrate NowSMS into our portal so that users can send SMS messages through the portal and not the gateway's web interface? Say user A sends a message using the web interface, and so does user B, to a differet SMS recepient, when the recepients reply, will the gateway route the responses to the correct user account? We'd rather have SMS replies sent to the correct account gateway account or forward to that user's email address. If there is a filtering rule to enable this, please let me know. The manual mentioned that incoming SMS messages can be routed to an email address. Is this setting a global thing that can be replicated to all users and does it use the gateway's internal SMTP engine? We have the Nokia 31 GSM/GPRS Terminal, is this a good modem? I'm assuming it can send and receive SMS text. What experience have you had using this modem? If we programatically make config changes to any of the gateway's .ini file, do we have to restart the services each time? I hope the questions are not too many  . I have read the manual a couple of times, but I'd like to clarify a few things before a purchase. Thanks for your time! supi | |||
| Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Bryce Post Number: 3196 Registered: 10-2002 |
Hi Supi, I'm sorry that I didn't reply to your message sooner. We have some different areas out here in the discussion board. Some of the areas are designated for product support (and we monitor them more closely), and some are just for general technical discussions, where we let people gather for technical discussion that don't necessarily relate to our products. Regarding your questions, we've added an HTTP based API for adding user accounts. There is an updated version of NowSMS that can be downloaded at http://www.nowsms.com/download/nowsms550d.zip. Basically, this update is a patch for an existing v5.50 installation, so you have to have v5.50 installed first. The patch.txt file in the ZIP has details about the API for creating user accounts. Regarding routing message replies back to the correct individual ... that's not really possible with only a single modem/phone number. The problem is that there is nothing in a reply that indicates that it is a reply to an existing message. Basically, there is no attribute of the message or anything like that. In order to route a message back to a particular account, it would need to include some keyword text at the start of the message. If you'd like more specifics, let's continue this discussion over in one of the product support areas of the forum. Oh ... and the Nokia 31 does seem to be a decent modem. I haven't had a lot of experience with it personally, but other users seem to be quite happy with it. -bn | |||
