Notifications by SMS

[Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)]

I think this could spark an interesting discussion!

Both AQL and Text Anywhere (providers I've used in the past) take only 
the subject and the body (up to the 160-character limit) as the text 
message body.
Taking the entire e-mail including headers seems bad practice for the 
obvious reasons of message length restrictions!

TextAnywhere also do some other interesting things, based upon which TA 
domain you send your e-mail to:

- Take the first 11 characters of the e-mail subject as the originator 
ID (instead of your mobile number) and the first 160 characters of the 
body as the text message
- Take the first 160 characters of the e-mail body as the text message, 
setting the originator ID to your account's default mobile number
- Take the entire e-mail body and send as many SMSes as needed to send 
the complete message (up to 3 messages will get linked as 1 by your handset)

If you use the HTTP gateway there are a lot more options you can do, 
including getting a delivery report back when the message has been 
delivered to the handset (obviously custom programming on your side is 
needed.)

Andy.


Frost, Mark {PBG} wrote:
> We do this as well (e-mail to phonenumber at provider) to receive alerts.
> What's not so good about this is that most phone companies limit the
> length of an SMS message.  The provider includes a lot of the e-mail
> header in the SMS message which eats up a good chunk of that length.  We
> find that regularly we get the subject, but little or none of the body
> of the alert message.
>
> It would be nice to be able to get just the alert without all the e-mail
> header crap.  That's what makes the notion of a service that translates
> the e-mail message more intelligently and sends it via SMS an intriguing
> idea to us.
>
> Mark
>
>   

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