Re: Text Message From SM E-Mail..
Ralph Fox wrote: On Mon, 15 Oct 2012 18:33:52 -0500, JD wrote: MCBastos wrote: Interviewed by CNN on 15/10/2012 13:18, JD told the world: I have a person who prefers to be contacted by text messages. I have learned how to send a text message from the SM e-mail program. The problem is, the phone number reported to the person receiving the text message is 10 digits that are not my phone. I understand that my SM e-mail has no way t know my phone number. The text message is coming from area code 141 which appears to be the international area code for a phone in North America. My question is, can I change that number or is her cell phone provider generating the number? Not my area of expertise, I probably got the details wrong, but... You are probably using a gateway service -- some server that receives an e-mail, converts it into a text message and resends it through the SMS network. AFAIK, the sender of an SMS message is identified by essentially the same mechanism that CallerID uses -- that is, the sender's phone number is supplied by the *network*, not by the sender. I don't think the sender is allowed to supply any sender phone number it wishes. That is, I think sender phone numbers are not spoofable by anyone but a telephone company. The phone number the receiver is seeing is the number of the phone line the SMS forwarding service uses to connect to the phone service. So... there's nothing you can do about it on your side. This ability would have to be supplied by the gateway service, and they would need the collaboration of the phone company. Perhaps you can find a different gateway service that allow you to customize the sender's phone number. But I sorta doubt it. Thanks MCBastos. I use my ISP's e-mail server to send an e-mail to the phone number with area code of the person so it looks like xxx...@text.xxx.net. Somewhere in the process, it's gets the strange phone number. The '@text.xxx.net' is a service which converts emails into text messages. That service is the one which is generating the number. I have used a similar service in the past. If the recipient replied by text message to the generated number, then the service would convert the reply text message into an email to me. If you want to change the generated number, you will have to do a deal with the people who run the '@text.xxx.net' service. Thanks Ralph. I can live with the generated number. -- JD.. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Text Message From SM E-Mail..
On Mon, 15 Oct 2012 18:33:52 -0500, JD wrote: MCBastos wrote: Interviewed by CNN on 15/10/2012 13:18, JD told the world: I have a person who prefers to be contacted by text messages. I have learned how to send a text message from the SM e-mail program. The problem is, the phone number reported to the person receiving the text message is 10 digits that are not my phone. I understand that my SM e-mail has no way t know my phone number. The text message is coming from area code 141 which appears to be the international area code for a phone in North America. My question is, can I change that number or is her cell phone provider generating the number? Not my area of expertise, I probably got the details wrong, but... You are probably using a gateway service -- some server that receives an e-mail, converts it into a text message and resends it through the SMS network. AFAIK, the sender of an SMS message is identified by essentially the same mechanism that CallerID uses -- that is, the sender's phone number is supplied by the *network*, not by the sender. I don't think the sender is allowed to supply any sender phone number it wishes. That is, I think sender phone numbers are not spoofable by anyone but a telephone company. The phone number the receiver is seeing is the number of the phone line the SMS forwarding service uses to connect to the phone service. So... there's nothing you can do about it on your side. This ability would have to be supplied by the gateway service, and they would need the collaboration of the phone company. Perhaps you can find a different gateway service that allow you to customize the sender's phone number. But I sorta doubt it. Thanks MCBastos. I use my ISP's e-mail server to send an e-mail to the phone number with area code of the person so it looks like xxx...@text.xxx.net. Somewhere in the process, it's gets the strange phone number. The '@text.xxx.net' is a service which converts emails into text messages. That service is the one which is generating the number. I have used a similar service in the past. If the recipient replied by text message to the generated number, then the service would convert the reply text message into an email to me. If you want to change the generated number, you will have to do a deal with the people who run the '@text.xxx.net' service. -- Kind regards Ralph ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Text Message From SM E-Mail..
MCBastos wrote: Interviewed by CNN on 15/10/2012 13:18, JD told the world: I have a person who prefers to be contacted by text messages. I have learned how to send a text message from the SM e-mail program. The problem is, the phone number reported to the person receiving the text message is 10 digits that are not my phone. I understand that my SM e-mail has no way t know my phone number. The text message is coming from area code 141 which appears to be the international area code for a phone in North America. My question is, can I change that number or is her cell phone provider generating the number? Not my area of expertise, I probably got the details wrong, but... You are probably using a gateway service -- some server that receives an e-mail, converts it into a text message and resends it through the SMS network. AFAIK, the sender of an SMS message is identified by essentially the same mechanism that CallerID uses -- that is, the sender's phone number is supplied by the *network*, not by the sender. I don't think the sender is allowed to supply any sender phone number it wishes. That is, I think sender phone numbers are not spoofable by anyone but a telephone company. The phone number the receiver is seeing is the number of the phone line the SMS forwarding service uses to connect to the phone service. So... there's nothing you can do about it on your side. This ability would have to be supplied by the gateway service, and they would need the collaboration of the phone company. Perhaps you can find a different gateway service that allow you to customize the sender's phone number. But I sorta doubt it. Thanks MCBastos. I use my ISP's e-mail server to send an e-mail to the phone number with area code of the person so it looks like xxx...@text.xxx.net. Somewhere in the process, it's gets the strange phone number. -- JD.. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Text Message From SM E-Mail..
Interviewed by CNN on 15/10/2012 13:18, JD told the world: > I have a person who prefers to be contacted by text messages. > > I have learned how to send a text message from the SM e-mail program. > > The problem is, the phone number reported to the person receiving the > text message is 10 digits that are not my phone. I understand that my SM > e-mail has no way t know my phone number. > > The text message is coming from area code 141 which appears to be the > international area code for a phone in North America. > > My question is, can I change that number or is her cell phone provider > generating the number? Not my area of expertise, I probably got the details wrong, but... You are probably using a gateway service -- some server that receives an e-mail, converts it into a text message and resends it through the SMS network. AFAIK, the sender of an SMS message is identified by essentially the same mechanism that CallerID uses -- that is, the sender's phone number is supplied by the *network*, not by the sender. I don't think the sender is allowed to supply any sender phone number it wishes. That is, I think sender phone numbers are not spoofable by anyone but a telephone company. The phone number the receiver is seeing is the number of the phone line the SMS forwarding service uses to connect to the phone service. So... there's nothing you can do about it on your side. This ability would have to be supplied by the gateway service, and they would need the collaboration of the phone company. Perhaps you can find a different gateway service that allow you to customize the sender's phone number. But I sorta doubt it. -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... Sent from my Atari ST. * Added by TagZilla 0.7a1 running on Seamonkey 2.13.1 * Get it at http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Text Message From SM E-Mail..
I have a person who prefers to be contacted by text messages. I have learned how to send a text message from the SM e-mail program. The problem is, the phone number reported to the person receiving the text message is 10 digits that are not my phone. I understand that my SM e-mail has no way t know my phone number. The text message is coming from area code 141 which appears to be the international area code for a phone in North America. My question is, can I change that number or is her cell phone provider generating the number? -- JD.. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
