Texting from Omnis?

[Doug Easterbrook]

hi Andrew.

I agree — user a service that integrates it because the tough part is making sure which phone carrier the user has and if they change their carrier, its is hassle to keep that up to date.


but .. this is how SMS messaging works.. its an email to a phone number.   thats the rudimentary part of it.   

I wouldn’t want to rebuild twillio and whatever it does n the background - so, as Scotte says, use an external vendor.


I just wanted to demystify the process.      omnis can do it.   I wouldn't want to write my own unless it was for internal use like texting a support person to fix something.





Doug Easterbrook
Arts Management Systems Ltd.
mailto:doug at artsman.com
http://www.artsman.com
Phone (403) 650-1978

> On Dec 7, 2022, at 11:14 AM, Andrew Stolarz <stolarz at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Doug,
> 
> Doing what you mention is not technically "texting" from Omnis but rather
> sending an email from Omnis to the carrier, who then handles the text
> message on your behalf?
> 
> The tricky part as you stated is to determine what email suffix to use, and
> verify that before sending. Nowadays users port numbers over to various
> carriers all the time.
> 
> 
> Seems like integrating with a service that handles all that is the best
> route to take.
> 
> 
> Andrew
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 1:51 PM Doug Easterbrook via omnisdev-en <
> omnisdev-en at lists.omnis-dev.com> wrote:
> 
>> hi Das:
>> 
>> texting from omnis to a phone is possible and always has been.
>> 
>> conceptually, you send an email to the phone number of the person (with
>> the phone carrier’s email address).
>> 
>> 
>> eg to sent to a text to  phone # 4445551235 on version is
>> 
>> email to 4445551235 at vtext.com <mailto:4445551235 at vtext.com>
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> have a view of this — it will explain it
>> 
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOpKU6y-1_o <
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOpKU6y-1_o>
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> thats the hard way, since you have to maintain a list of the suffixes for
>> each phone company and know of a way to look up the phone to find the
>> provider.
>> 
>> if you are trying to do this as a general solution, then look for some
>> external service to handle the interface
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> if you are trying to do it for yourself for a notification, you know your
>> phone number and phone company, so its easy enough to send to your self.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Doug Easterbrook
>> Arts Management Systems Ltd.
>> mailto:doug at artsman.com
>> http://www.artsman.com
>> Phone (403) 650-1978
>> 
>>> On Dec 7, 2022, at 10:26 AM, Das Goravani <goravanis at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Dear List,
>>> 
>>> Do you know if Texting from Omnis 10.22 is possible, if so, how is it
>> done, through what command do you issue the text message?
>>> 
>>> You have to have a text sending account with a phone company I would
>> imagine right?
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> 
>>> Das Goravani
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