Have fun calling cell providers about TAP/Dial-up SMS support! Most of them have NO idea what you're talking about... you'll generally have to work your way through multiple layers of support to get any useful information... at least in my experience. :|
Bryan
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Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/12/2005 01:49 PM
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Hello Latricia,
The easiest way to have messages sent to your cell phone is to email a specific address that represents your phone. Many cell phone carriers provide this capability as part of their service. So for example, Whatsup would email [EMAIL PROTECTED] and you would receive the message as a text message. You would need to check with your cell phone carrier to see what the exact email address is.
The main problem with this method is that it requires for your network to be in a healthy state in order to work. So if you wanted a message if your email server went down, then you obviously could not use the down email server to transmit the message. There is a notification/action shipped with Whatsup called ‘SMS’ that is used for this problem. Many cell phone carriers provide modem dialup numbers to relay text. The plug-in does require a modem and you would need to contact Verizon to see if they offer this.
WhatsUp would dial verizon using the modem, transmit the message to their server using a specific protocol (usually called TAP) and then verizon would send the message to its broadcasting network.
I hope this helps,
~Brian Miller
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Latricia Kinchen
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 4:30 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] Alerts sent to my cell phone
verizon
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Glatt, Robert (contractor)
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 4:11 PM
To: '[email protected]'
Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] Alerts sent to my cell phone
what carrier do you have for your cell phone ? verizon, sprint.....
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Latricia Kinchen
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 4:00 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [WhatsUp Forum] Alerts sent to my cell phone
Hello everyone,
Is there a way to setup WUG 8 to send notification to my cell instead of my beeper. (ie text messaging).
Latricia A. Kinchen
Network Administrator
Habitat for Humanity
322 W. Lamar Street
Americus, GA 31709
www.habitat.org
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
800-422-4828 x2706
