Sorry I should have been more clear. Thank you though. I am not using sms directly because I do not have an sms card here. I am using the email address assigned to my phone and I am sending via smtp. This uses the providers sm to sms gateway which is what has changed.
Jason Passow Mississippi Welders Supply [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: (507) 494-5178 fax: (507) 454-8104 "If you do everything right, nobody will realize you've done anything at all." Dirk Bulinckx wrote: > By default we send the SMS message with a max size of 160 chars as that is by > default the normal max length allowed for SMS Messages. > And by default if the message is longer then 160 chars, you loose the rest. > > However this can be altered via 2 settings (registry settings): > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\DBU Consulting\Servers Alive\Paging\MaxMessageSize > (dword) > => defines the max size of 1 message > > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\DBU Consulting\Servers > Alive\Paging\SplitLongMessage > (dword) > => if the value if 1 then we will splitt the message in parts (based on > the maxmessagesize) and send several messages if needed > > > Dirk Bulinckx. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Jason Passow > Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 2:55 PM > To: Servers Alive Discussion List > Subject: [SA-list] (Off topic) SMS truncating > > I have some of my more important salive alerts set to send to my cell > phone and my email. My provider has changed their SMS gateway. They > used to allow me truncate my messages and receive only one per Salive > message. That is generally enough to know what is happening. Now they > do not have that option and I receive two alerts per message (double the > text message fees). I know most of you are going to tell me to create a > shorter message. That will be difficult and time consuming since I > have no way to change these messages except removing my cell and then > re-adding a new alert for mobile. If anyone has a better way of doing > I would be happy to hear but it seems I would have to add a new alert > to these more important checks anyway. My real question is does > anyone know of an email provider (gmail, yahoo, hotmail, etc) or a > program that will allow me truncate these messages and forward them? > > Dirk any chance of building truncation into the code. Seems to me > (non-programmer) that one could identify (via checkbox or something) a > mobile number/email and truncate it to a certain number of characters. > Perhaps if it is easy it could be done and if not then I am sure most > will tell you to not waste your time. > > To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE as subject to [email protected] If you use auto-responders (like out-of-the-office messages), then make sure that they are not send to the list nor to the individual members of the list that send a message. Doing this will get you removed from the list.
