Re: [DUG] email, fax and text

Sun, 08 Aug 2004 20:56:36 -0700

I know very little about sms (I don't even own a cell phone !!!!!!!) but I think the newer Telecom phones can be set to report back when a sms has been received.  So they would probably work great with the solution Jeremy has outlined (if it works with CDMA phones).
 
 
Rob Martin
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----- Original Message -----
From: Matt Comb
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: [DUG] email, fax and text

Thanks, yer I think this basically means that it has gone from your phone to vodaphone, but you have no guarantee (although most likely) that it has gone on to the other person. I remember a company that transported people from auckland to the Mt, and they used to have a head office that would sms the driver. They would do door to door, but they had to also phone up after the sms because some times the sms would either arrive late because he was out of coverage or not at all on rare occasions. This meant that the customer was left standing at the door.
 
There is a NZ crowd that run an sms server as such, I can't remember their name, but because they programmed the mechanism, they are able to report when the message has gone on to be received by the end person in the chain. In cases like the above, you would be able to realise that there has been a delay so therefore try to contact either him in another way or the customer.
 
Thanks for the link,
 
Matt.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 3:37 PM
Subject: Re: [DUG] email, fax and text

The phone does respond with "Message Successfully Sent" and the code fires an event, but not sure wether this means its entered the ether successfully, enter the vodaphone network successfully, or actually arrived ok.
The code is availible, its found at http://www.softwarecave.nl
 
Jeremy
 

-----Original Message-----
From: "Matt Comb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 15:07:47 +1200
Subject: Re: [DUG] email, fax and text

> Oh yer, I remember hearing about someone who had done that. Thats
> pretty
> cool.
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you do it this way, you don't have any
> control on whether the sms has arrived at the recipient ? I dont know
> if you
> do with the vodaphone solution either? I remember that there was a
> crowd at
> the computer expo a couple of years ago that did have a mechanism that
> could
> guarantee the delivery of an sms.
>
> Is your VCL available Jeremy? and what about the dll?
>
> Matt.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeremy Coulter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 2:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [DUG] email, fax and text
>
>
> > also for SMS there is an option where you can get an old say Nokia
> 5110
> > which are as cheap as chips on trademe, and get a datacable and there
> is a
> > DLL that will connect to your nokia phone that I wrote the VCL
> Wrappers
> for
> > the developers of the DLL, and that will send SMS's thru the phone.
> > But also, the AsyncPro stuff is best for faxing, even when it wasnt
> free
> it
> > was the best around.
> >
> > Jeremy
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: "Matt Comb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 13:41:56 +1200
> > Subject: Re: [DUG] email, fax and text
> >
> > > Hi Alister... Sending sms messages are pretty simple, you can open
> up a
> > > socket connection with the provider, but the most important thing
> is
> > > that
> > > you require a sms provider e.g. Vodaphone, and Vodaphone actually
> have
> > > a
> > > webtotext engine that you can license. You get slightly cheaper
> sms'
> > > from
> > > memory, and their engine basically provides you with an interface
> to
> > > send
> > > the sms through.
> > >
> > > Note, to the best of my knowledge, you cannot send sms' without
> having
> > > an
> > > account such as this. There are some freebies around the world, but
> > > assuming
> > > that you need something reliable and don't want half your sms' to
> go
> > > missing, you are better off choosing one of the local solutions.
> > >
> > > Also interested to know if you get the mechanism working from
> within
> > > delphi.
> > > If you need any help, let me know.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Matt.
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Alister Christie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: "NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 1:33 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [DUG] email, fax and text
> > >
> > >
> > > > For faxing you could use Async Pro (available on sourceforge).
> > > > Emailing can be done in a large number of ways but Indy has some
> good
> > > > email components.
> > > > I don't know anything much about text messaging but if you find
> > > > something I'd be interested in knowing about it ;-)
> > > >
> > > > Alister Christie
> > > > Computers for People
> > > > Phone: 04 471 1849 / Fax: 04 471 1266
> > > > PO Box 13085
> > > > Johnsonville
> > > > Wellington
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Laurie Bisman wrote:
> > > > > I have a need to send messages to email, fax and text from a
> > > database
> > > > > app. I can build an email and activate IE, but this isn't what
> I
> > > want. I
> > > > > want to send these messages directly.
> > > > >
> > > > > Anyone know how to do this for email, fax and text messages? -
> if
> > > so,
> > > > > can you point me in the right direction.
> > > > >
> > > > > Laurie Bisman..
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > >
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