Enabling receipt requested for SMPP

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John Wood
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Username: Jwscot

Post Number: 1
Registered: 11-2009
Posted on Thursday, November 05, 2009 - 10:00 am:   

I'm evaluating the trail version of smslite at the moment.

One of the things I would like to do is to enable delivery receipts for all SMPP originated messages.

I tried adding ReceiptRequested=Yes to smsgw.ini, but it appears, from another thread, that this flag only works for http traffic.

Is it possible to set default delivery receipts for SMPP in SMSLite, and if so, how?

Many thanks
Des - NowSMS Support
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Username: Desosms

Post Number: 1411
Registered: 08-2008
Posted on Thursday, November 05, 2009 - 04:43 pm:   

Hi John,

Yes, there is a setting to force the delivery receipt flag to be turned on, even if the originating SMPP client did not set it.

Edit SMSGW.INI, and if there is not an existing [SMPP] section header in the file, add one.

Then, under the [SMPP] header, add DefaultDelReceipt=Yes

That setting will work the same way in NowSMS Lite as in the standard edition.

It causes NowSMS to treat all messages submitted from an SMPP client as if the registered_delivery flag is set (receipt requested).

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Des
NowSMS Support
John Wood
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Username: Jwscot

Post Number: 2
Registered: 11-2009
Posted on Friday, November 06, 2009 - 10:11 am:   

Des,

thanks for that

The situation has taken a strange turn, however, as I discovered this morning that the network we use (O2 in the UK) doesn't support delivery receipt requests using things as mundane as standards. If you want a delivery receipt from them, you need to prefix each message with *0# - obvious really

Fortunately, the software we're using will let us do this, so we should be ok.
Des - NowSMS Support
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Username: Desosms

Post Number: 1422
Registered: 08-2008
Posted on Monday, November 09, 2009 - 09:35 pm:   

Hi John,

I suppose I should try this myself with an O2 SIM.

But I'm curious, is it a standard format receipt that comes back when you do this, or is it something non-standard?

If the receipt that comes back is standard format, I'd be inclined to get us to add an option that inserts the prefix when a receipt is requested.

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Des
NowSMS Support