Posts Tagged SMS
iPhone gets Delivery Reports – finally!
Thanks to the incredible efforts of francois.guilleme, the iPhone finally has delivery reports!
By intercepting calls to/from CommCenter, his library modifies outgoing SMS headers (adding the delivery report flag), and captures incoming SMS reports (displaying them either as a flash message, a regular sms message, or a simple ‘tick’ mark).
All the details (including source) are up on the google code site. Installation is simple, just add http://iphonedelivery.advinux.com/cydia or http://iphonedelivery.advinux.fr/cydia as a cydia source, install the iPhoneDelivery package, and robert is your relative.
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iPhone 3.0 Update, but no delivery reports
How could apple develop things like MMS, vCard support, and even peer-to-peer connections for the iPhone, and yet omit gaping holes like SMS delivery report support? I’m starting to think that SMS delivery reports don’t work in Cupertino.
Edit (July 2009): If you’re interested in getting this feature added to the iPhone OS, please vote for it here: Please Add Delivery Reports to the iPhone.
Update (October 2009): No more silliness with prefixes needed – if you’ve a jailbroken phone, you can now get genuine delivery reports. More info here.
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Email to SMS gateway
This is something I’ve implemented several times over the last few years. The principle is simple:
- You send an email to mobile_number@sms.yourdomain.com with TXT in the subject, and the actual text body in the email body,
- This goes to your mail server mail.yourdomain.com, and gets forwarded to the user smsuser
- A procmail recipe in smsuser’s home dir strips out the mobile number and the body of the message, and, using o2sms, sends a regular sms to mobile_number
- The output from o2sms is sent back to you via email, so you know it all worked out ok.
It’s all free, and reliable.
This is how I went about setting it up on ubuntu: Read the rest of this entry »
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