Hi Sunny, You need to ask that provider whether they provide, or would be able to provide, an SMS-to-eMail gateway.
The gateway needs to allow e-mails to send in the format: [email protected] where the number is the phone number your user will enter and name.of.mail.provider is an eMail domain like sms-gateway.phoneco.com. This would allow your service to send SMS messages to your users. For the return path, the service would need to be able to send e-mails to you. The way it's currently configured, I think your users would have to send to a specific e-mail address, which I think is unique per user. I don't run my own instance of Laconica, so I can't be sure. Your other alternative for SMS messages in would be to set up some arrangement with the phone carrier to deliver the messages to some service running on your server. This service would translate the mobile number to a username by looking at the system's databases and then processing that as an "authenticated" message (as it's come from a difficult-to-spoof source). Sadly, this second service is not something which is pre-built in the Laconica codebase, as the chances are it would be specific to the provider and no-one else is doing anything like this (that I know of), so you'd probably have to get someone to write it for you. I hope this gives you some more of the technical information that you need. Anyone who's currently running the SMS side of things, can you confirm I'm right? Rgds, -- Jon ""The Nice Guy"" Spriggs LPIC-1 Certified This message was sent from my mobile device. Please excuse any top posting and typos that may occur as a result. On Jul 21, 2009 4:26 AM, "Sunny Chow" <[email protected]> wrote: Hi all, non-programmer here asking techie question: I have a local-centric Laconica site catering to users in Singapore. I would like to add my country's local mobile phone providers to the list so that users can sms their tweets/notices to post on the site. How can I do this? I will be talking to one provider about doing this but need to know how to present the requirements to them so they understand what needs to be done to effect this. I would appreciate any help you can give me on this. Regards Sunny www.tweetlah.sg _______________________________________________ Laconica-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.laconi.ca/mailman/listinfo/laconica-dev
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