Sending Text Messages from Studio

[Jef Leys | Desim]

Hi,

There is a library on GitHub which you can use. 

https://github.com/mpepa/SMSGateway <https://github.com/mpepa/SMSGateway>


If you only deploy on Mac you could using the application 'SMS Mac scripting', using Apple Script.

Jef Leys



> Op 10 aug. 2019, om 01:24 heeft Chris Hughes <ataddata at bigpond.net.au> het volgende geschreven:
> 
> Chris Hughes here
> 
> I have been sending SMS for years from Deoffice, that I released to the Omnis public.
> 
> We send to a SMS provider, they ask for subscription for so many messages.
> 
> By the way man bugs have been fixed in Deofice.
> 
> We only send, you can receive
> 
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> 
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> 
> ------ Original Message ------
> From: "Mayada Al-Kishtini" <malkishtini at gmail.com>
> To: "'OmnisDev List - English'" <omnisdev-en at lists.omnis-dev.com>
> Sent: Saturday, 10 Aug, 2019 At 3:16 AM
> Subject: RE: Sending Text Messages from Studio
> 
> Hi Jeanne,
> 
> We have the same problem with sending text messages using SMTP in Studio. So
> far I found that the problem is related to the Email service providers, some
> of them, for some reasons, don't support texting.
> 
> You can search the archive for a thread with this subject "A question about
> SMTPSend"..
> Check the suggestion from Doug Easterbrook, "A question about SMTPSend (and
> some other things to think about)", about using Mailgun as a service
> provider for your clients that have a problem with texting.
> I started investigating this change and things are working much better with
> us so far.
> 
> HTH,
> Mayada
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: omnisdev-en [mailto:omnisdev-en-bounces at lists.omnis-dev.com] On Behalf
> Of Jeanne Reyes
> Sent: Friday, August 09, 2019 12:40 PM
> To: OmnisDev List - English
> Subject: Sending Text Messages from Studio
> 
> I'm sending text messages to the company clients via email using smtp
> server.  So far its been unreliable as some text go thru and others do
> not.  The Att customers for example do not get them.  Metro, tmobil and
> others do.
> 
> This is posing a challenge for me now as we planing to expand to send
> automatic notifications/confirmation with certain transactions:
> 
> -Trouble #1  unreliability.  Some get it, some do not
> -Trouble #2  in order for me to send via smtp server I have to know
> customer cellphone provider.  Not all the customer on the database have
> that info.
> 
> So the question is: Is there another way I can send text messages from
> studio that does not entitle an email and I dont need to input the
> provider?  The company that handles the texting for us outside of studio do
> not need that info.  We only give them a file with the phone numbers in it
> and they mass send the texts, but I cant use that with what I want to do
> now.  It has to come from studio.
> 
> By the way, we are using Studio 6.1  and planning to upgrade to Studio 10
> 
> Please advise.
> 
> Jeanne Reyes
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