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Cellular Phone Forum / General / GSM / May 2004Sending SMS from my PC
All, I'd like to write a utility to send SMS messages to cell phones from my PC. I work for a small wireless carrier and we send messages to many of our customers reminding them to pay their bills. Our tech guy quit recently and I'm a fairly technically adept guy so I thought I might try writing something myself. In the past we've done this using outlook to send a message to the smsc (or at least that's what I'm told). The address format is: 9999999999@msg.ourcarrier.com. I've tried sending messages from outlook myself in both html AND plain text formats. The message gets delivered to the phone with the appropriate sender information and subject if I remember correctly but the message itself always says "Format Not Supported." One thought I had was that maybe Outlook is still formating the message as something other than truly plain text even when I choose plain text. I know that there are commercial products out there that can do this but I was hoping for something simpler and cheaper that I could engineer myself. I'd also really like to be able to create this in VB6 since we don't have the .NET framework installed on our pcs and I believe that management would see this as a major disadvantage. Thanks, Mike Hello, mike! You wrote on Fri, 17 Oct 2003 09:23:22 -0400: mk> I'd like to write a utility to send SMS messages to cell phones from mk> my PC. mk> I work for a small wireless carrier and we send messages to many of mk> our customers reminding them to pay their bills. Our tech guy quit mk> recently and mk> I'm a fairly technically adept guy so I thought I might try writing mk> something myself. mk> In the past we've done this using outlook to send a message to the mk> smsc (or at least that's what I'm told). The address format is: mk> 9999999999@msg.ourcarrier.com. mk> I've tried sending messages from outlook myself in both html AND mk> plain text formats. The message gets delivered to the phone with mk> the appropriate sender information and subject if I remember mk> correctly but the message itself always says "Format Not Supported." mk> One thought I had was that maybe mk> Outlook is still formating the message as something other than truly mk> plain text even when I choose plain text. mk> I know that there are commercial products out there that can do this mk> but I was hoping for something simpler and cheaper that I could mk> engineer myself. mk> I'd also really like to be able to create this in VB6 since we don't mk> have the .NET framework installed on our pcs and I believe that mk> management would see this as a major disadvantage. Take a look at http://www.smsactivex.com. If you will have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. Best regards, Oleg Fyodorov. Oxygen Software - tools for your Nokia. Oxygen Phone Manager II - all you want from your Nokia. support@oxygensoftware.com http://www.oxygensoftware.com http://www.oxygensoftware.co.uk I'm just beginning to look at SMS as a possible enhancement to a mobile application I'm developing for laptops. Is there any reason why you only support one particular brand of phone? Any chance other brands will be added soon so that I, as the developer, don't have to worry about which brand of phone the user has? thanks. Chip > Hello, mike! > You wrote on Fri, 17 Oct 2003 09:23:22 -0400: [quoted text clipped - 38 lines] > http://www.oxygensoftware.com > http://www.oxygensoftware.co.uk You may want to try service available at www.ipipi.com. I was able to connect my corporate application to global SMS network in less than an hour. They got a very easy to use API and pricing is OK. Hope this helps, b > I'm just beginning to look at SMS as a possible enhancement to a mobile > application I'm developing for laptops. [quoted text clipped - 49 lines] > > http://www.oxygensoftware.com > > http://www.oxygensoftware.co.uk Most mobile carriers allow you to sent an email to SMS. So why not input the e-mail address of the mobile phone your want to sms to? Or use a gateway such as teleflip.com > I'm just beginning to look at SMS as a possible enhancement to a mobile > application I'm developing for laptops. [quoted text clipped - 49 lines] > > http://www.oxygensoftware.com > > http://www.oxygensoftware.co.uk With regards to the original question. Take a look at NotePage's software. Should do everything you want, with PageGate their may even be away to hook in to your billing application - http://www.notepage.net/software.htm >I'm just beginning to look at SMS as a possible enhancement to a mobile >application I'm developing for laptops. >Is there any reason why you only support one particular brand of phone? Any >chance other brands will be added soon so that I, as the developer, don't >have to worry about which brand of phone the user has? Shouldn't be an issue if you are sending the messages using standard protocols. John Charles >I'd like to write a utility to send SMS messages to cell phones from my PC. >I work for a small wireless carrier and we send messages to many of our >customers reminding them to pay their bills. Our tech guy quit recently and >I'm a fairly technically adept guy so I thought I might try writing >something myself. Microsoft has a free SMS Sender for XP and Windows Server 2003 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=06a4f997-7f69-4891-8929 -37b9041924a2&DisplayLang=en > One thought I had was that maybe >Outlook is still formating the message as something other than truly plain >text even when I choose plain text. Yup, MS Lookout can be b*tch to configure. Keep working on it. Yes, it can send plain text. > All, > [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > Mike GOOD I'M AWFUL GLAD IT DOESN'T WORK AND YOU ARE AS BAD AS THE SPAMMERS!!!!!!!!!!!! Many of us have to pay to receive an SMS message, and you want to send junkmail to people so they not only have to pay for your junk, but the bill too! I notice you don't post your SMS ID here so we can all send junkmail (errr junkmessages) to you and cost you a LOT of money. First off you don't know me a.shole! Secondly if you don't have something constructive to say then don't say anything. By the way, you don't pay to receive sms messages at least not from my carrier anyway. You only pay to receive them. I hate spam myself and if i didn't have to remind a good portion of our customers that they needed to pay their bills on time I wouldn't be screwing with this in the first place. So thank you for being a dickhead and making assumptions. Your comments were most appreciated. Mike > > All, > > [quoted text clipped - 41 lines] > I notice you don't post your SMS ID here so we can all send junkmail (errr > junkmessages) to you and cost you a LOT of money. Well, I had something constructive to say, so there goes your statement. And by the way, Verizom (at least) charges 2 cents for every SMS message received. Since a majority of people here have Verizon (at least I do) I think it's really assholeish to ask people for help to create something that may cost other people money. Heres a concept, send them a bill in the US mail and PAY FOR THE POSTAGE YOURSELF! > First off you don't know me a.shole! Secondly if you don't have something > constructive to say then don't say anything. By the way, you don't pay to [quoted text clipped - 57 lines] > (errr > > junkmessages) to you and cost you a LOT of money. What' s the problem Peter? Wendy not giving it up this week? Man, you need to calm the "f" down. That guy said nothing to deserve your soapbox act. U need to answer one of those "Drugs To Your Door By Mail" SPAM ads and get yourself some PROZAC. Then prance your a.s back down to Never Never Land where you certainly belong. > Well, I had something constructive to say, so there goes your statement. And > by the way, Verizom (at least) charges 2 cents for every SMS message [quoted text clipped - 71 lines] > > (errr > > > junkmessages) to you and cost you a LOT of money. SimStore customers can send SMS from the website www.simstore.com Of course if they're wacked out it might get pricey :-) Also note the recipient charging is retsricted to America and parts of Asia. In Europe and Australasia recipients pay nothing > What' s the problem Peter? Wendy not giving it up this week? Man, you need > to calm the "f" down. That guy said nothing to deserve your soapbox act. U [quoted text clipped - 137 lines] >>> >>>>junkmessages) to you and cost you a LOT of money.  Signaturewww.simstore.com dont cook your phone book > Well, I had something constructive to say, so there goes your statement. And > by the way, Verizom (at least) charges 2 cents for every SMS message > received. Since a majority of people here have Verizon (at least I do) I > think it's really assholeish to ask people for help to create something that > may cost other people money. Heres a concept, send them a bill in the US > mail and PAY FOR THE POSTAGE YOURSELF! You are an idiot. The SMS remiders are clearly designed for customers that dont respond to bills in the mail. The alternatives for the customer is - dont get SMS reminders and get disconnected for non-payment - recieve an SMS reminder, remember that you havent paid, pay your bill, and save $30/$50, or whatever your reconnection fee is Stupid yanks > > First off you don't know me a.shole! Secondly if you don't have something > > constructive to say then don't say anything. By the way, you don't pay [quoted text clipped - 64 lines] > > (errr > > > junkmessages) to you and cost you a LOT of money. |> Well, I had something constructive to say, so there goes your statement. And |> by the way, Verizom (at least) charges 2 cents for every SMS message |> received. Since a majority of people here have Verizon (at least I do) I |> think it's really assholeish to ask people for help to create something that |> may cost other people money. Heres a concept, send them a bill in the US |> mail and PAY FOR THE POSTAGE YOURSELF! Let me get this straight your sending billing messages to your customers thru their phones rather than sending snail mail. I don't normally flame fact is never yet, but dude you are a Dick Head. What really sad is your actually justifying it. Peter Pan what a fairy. --- .-. {\('v')/} _________`( )'_________ ^^" "^^ HEALTH: The slowest possible rate of dying. > |> Well, I had something constructive to say, so there goes your statement. And > |> by the way, Verizom (at least) charges 2 cents for every SMS message [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > ^^" "^^ > HEALTH: The slowest possible rate of dying. Looks like you are the a.shole , I was responding to someone that wanted to send sms messages to people instead of outlook email to pay their bill, and telling him some people get charged for RECEIVING sms messages! watch what you trim dickhead, you cut off the post I was replying to.... By the way, you don't pay to send sms messages at least not from my carrier anyway. You only pay to receive them. After he said > > "mike k" <mjkelley@charter.net> wrote in message > > news:vovra4cm6eje50@corp.supernews.com... > > > All, > > > > > > I'd like to write a utility to send SMS messages to cell phones from my PC. > > > I work for a small wireless carrier and we send messages to many of our > > > customers reminding them to pay their bills. Our tech guy quit recently and > > > I'm a fairly technically adept guy so I thought I might try writing > > > something myself. > > > > > > In the past we've done this using outlook. I've tried sending messages from outlook myself in both html AND plain text > > > formats. The message gets delivered to the phone with the appropriate sender information and subject if I remember correctly but the message > > > itself always says "Format Not Supported." > > All, > > [quoted text clipped - 38 lines] > junkmail to people so they not only have to pay for your junk, but the bill > too! Thats because you live in a stupid country that has called-party-pays Your country needs to get into the real world, thanks >> > All, >> > [quoted text clipped - 47 lines] > >Your country needs to get into the real world, thanks And a butthole such as yourself doesn't get free nights and weekend calling or unlimited data offerrings either do you? Before you call someone stupid look at your own house. The European and North American systems are different and both work. *Please* stay where you are. We don't need jerks like you roaming around here. Why you feel being an a.shole serves your purpose is lost on the average reader. Do you practise being a jerk? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To send an email reply send to GSMthemobilestandard (@) yahoo.com > >> Many of us have to pay to receive an SMS message, and you want to send > >> junkmail to people so they not only have to pay for your junk, but the [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > And a butthole such as yourself doesn't get free nights and weekend > calling or unlimited data offerrings either do you? Before you call Yes, we do, thanks for asking > someone stupid look at your own house. The European and North > American systems are different and both work. *Please* stay where > you are. We don't need jerks like you roaming around here. Sorry, but GSM doesnt work in North America, at all. I suggest you look at www.gsmworld.com to check subscriber numbers and you will see that America is far behind > Why you feel being an a.shole serves your purpose is lost on the > average reader. Do you practise being a jerk? Get into the real world. At least in the US, you can send SMS messages from AOL Instant Messenger (and Apple's iChat which uses the AIM network). In the "Send and Instant Message" menu, just type in the phone number (i.e. +1 212 123 4567) and type your message and send. In the US, ATTWS and Verizon customers can respond to these, T-Mobile can receive, but cannot respond. I don't know about other carriers. Mark On 10/17/03 5:38 PM, in article bmpr1h$pa90i$1@ID-190045.news.uni-berlin.de, >> All, >> [quoted text clipped - 41 lines] > I notice you don't post your SMS ID here so we can all send junkmail (errr > junkmessages) to you and cost you a LOT of money. I respond with my t-mobile phone all the time!! > At least in the US, you can send SMS messages from AOL Instant Messenger > (and Apple's iChat which uses the AIM network). In the "Send and Instant [quoted text clipped - 53 lines] > > I notice you don't post your SMS ID here so we can all send junkmail (errr > > junkmessages) to you and cost you a LOT of money. |
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