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| Rob Ristroph New member Username: Robristroph Post Number: 2 Registered: 05-2007 |
Hi, I am currently testing Now.SMS with a MultiTech Edge modem. For this to be useful to me I need to be able to get to a basic setup that at a minimum receives SMS and MMS messages and forwards them to an email address, or puts them in a directory, or something simple. I have worked with the manual a bit and I have not gotten very far. I know I can receive SMS messages, because I can find them in a directory on the computer. I receive some MMS messages in the same way, such as those I send to myself through the web interface, but others seem to come as a text message containing a URL to go to to get the actual MMS message. I have noticed that at least some of the configurations are stored in text files in the NowSMS directory. Are all the configurations stored in such files ? I was wondering, if someone with a simple working setup could zip up all the .ini files and any other configuration files, of a simple setup that would just forward all SMS and MMS messages a single email address. I could then unpack those into my directory, change the email address in the configuration as will as which COM port the modem was on, and then I would have a simple, useful setup to start with. Any thoughts would be appreciated. I would just like to figure out if I am going to be able to use this before I purchase it. I am worried that the mix of carriers of people who MMS me will prevent me from receiving all MMS's directly, and a lot of them will have the URL link in them. Thanks in advance ! --Rob | |||
| Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Bryce Post Number: 7151 Registered: 10-2002 |
Hi Rob,
For the messages that you receive as an SMS with a web link, it sounds like the mobile operator associated with the SIM in your modem does not have an MMS interoperability agreement with the mobile operator associated with that message sender. Intra-country MMS interopability is pretty good at this point, but inter-country MMS interoperability is not so good. I'd be curious what the carriers are in question. Are you in the US? For what it is worth, Cingular seems to have more MMS interoperability agreements than T-Mobile. (If I remember correctly, T-Mobile and Verizon do not have an MMS interoperability agreement ... but I could be remembering wrong, or things may have changed.)
All of the configuration information is stored in the NowSMS directory, so yes, that is feasible. Most of the configuration information is in the SMSGW.INI and MMSC.INI files. User account information is in *.D2I and *.D2A files (some of this migating to *.DB files in the next version). The only tricky bit is the "MMSC VASP" and "MMSC Routing" definitions, where configuration information is stored in VASP.INI files under the VASP and VASPOUT directories.
That puzzles me, as like I mentioned above, I thought the MMS interoperability situation was better sorted in most countries by now. -bn | |||
