SMS: Need thoughts + feedback - Page 2

watchdis · 28 May 2006, 09:26 PM

:-)

well, it would be nice to have the option of both.

however, in full understanding that this is no doubt a nightmare for our fastmail friends, i reckon the sms's coming back to your phone is the most useful. with some kinda confirmation process it also avoids that bullying problem noted by woodyuk

robmueller · 30 May 2006, 02:22 PM

I thought back to phone would be the most common. The biggest problem being that US & Canada users are left out in the cold, you just can't make that work for them

I think the main things we'll probably do in the short term then are:
1. Settle on a stable provider that supports setting the originator (currently mblox is looking the best)
2. Have a separate SMS screen, which includes access to mobile numbers from the address book + a character count (including > 160 chars being broken into multiple SMSs) + an option to use the "squeeze" functionality
3. Note on the SMS screen and in the docs that SMS's to the US/Canada all have the same originator code, so you'll have to indentify yourself some other way in the SMS message itself

Rob

Terry · 30 May 2006, 06:55 PM

sounds good....love the idea of the 160 char count this would help me a lot.

Fenman · 30 May 2006, 07:01 PM

Excellent. Looks as if you've got the best possible fit there, Rob.

thomas44 · 31 May 2006, 01:03 AM

Quote:

1. Settle on a stable provider that supports setting the originator (currently mblox is looking the best)
2. Have a separate SMS screen, which includes access to mobile numbers from the address book + a character count (including > 160 chars being broken into multiple SMSs) + an option to use the "squeeze" functionality

What will the Squeeze-functionality do?

I just tested the fastmail-SMS-feature with my cellphone for the first time. I also wrongly thought it would cost too much, in fact it's cheaper than using my local provider (sunrise).

I will use this SMS-feature much more often, when available as described

hadaso · 1 Jun 2006, 06:05 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by octothorpe
... I do get bounces periodically (from Verizon's spam filters, i guess), and for some reason they go back to the original sender, who didn't e-mail me @vtext.com and is now rather puzzled at my seemingly byzantine system of e-mail addresses. If there's a way to fix that bounce so it comes back to me only, I'd love to know it.

This is a common problem with forwarding email (i.e., redirecting the message "as is"). You forward email from one account to another of your accounts, but if the forwarding fails the original sender gets the error message. It's not a problem specific to FastMail. Many people forward their ISP mail to Gmail, and then when Gmail refuses executable attachments on email sent by viruses the forged address on the virus message gets the bounce message from the ISP.

To solve this there needs to be a way to resend the email from the forwarding service in a way that errors are directed to an address belonging to the user that set the forwarding (diferent envelope-from? something like "resent-sender" header?)

Edit: this is quite off topic and is currently being discuse here.

Fenman · 25 Aug 2006, 12:57 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by robmueller
I thought back to phone would be the most common. The biggest problem being that US & Canada users are left out in the cold, you just can't make that work for them

I think the main things we'll probably do in the short term then are:
1. Settle on a stable provider that supports setting the originator (currently mblox is looking the best)
2. Have a separate SMS screen, which includes access to mobile numbers from the address book + a character count (including > 160 chars being broken into multiple SMSs) + an option to use the "squeeze" functionality
3. Note on the SMS screen and in the docs that SMS's to the US/Canada all have the same originator code, so you'll have to indentify yourself some other way in the SMS message itself

Rob

Just wondered whether there is any news on this one.

robmueller · 25 Aug 2006, 12:44 PM

No news really sorry. Got distracted by getting all the replication stuff setup, reliability became the priority. That and the fact Mblox never got back to me with answers to some of my questions even though I pestered them like 3 times... *sigh*

Will get back on to it once all the replication setup is done, so looking forward to that!

Rob

28 May 2006, 09:26 PM	#16
watchdis Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Manchester, UK Posts: 152	how about both..... :-) well, it would be nice to have the option of both. however, in full understanding that this is no doubt a nightmare for our fastmail friends, i reckon the sms's coming back to your phone is the most useful. with some kinda confirmation process it also avoids that bullying problem noted by woodyuk

30 May 2006, 02:22 PM	#17
robmueller Intergalactic Postmaster Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 6,102 Representative of: Fastmail.FM	I thought back to phone would be the most common. The biggest problem being that US & Canada users are left out in the cold, you just can't make that work for them I think the main things we'll probably do in the short term then are: 1. Settle on a stable provider that supports setting the originator (currently mblox is looking the best) 2. Have a separate SMS screen, which includes access to mobile numbers from the address book + a character count (including > 160 chars being broken into multiple SMSs) + an option to use the "squeeze" functionality 3. Note on the SMS screen and in the docs that SMS's to the US/Canada all have the same originator code, so you'll have to indentify yourself some other way in the SMS message itself Rob

30 May 2006, 06:55 PM	#18
Terry The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: VK4 Posts: 3,028	sounds good....love the idea of the 160 char count this would help me a lot.

30 May 2006, 07:01 PM	#19
Fenman Cornerstone of the Community Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: UK (East Anglia) Posts: 737	Excellent. Looks as if you've got the best possible fit there, Rob.

25 Aug 2006, 12:44 PM	#23
robmueller Intergalactic Postmaster Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 6,102 Representative of: Fastmail.FM	No news really sorry. Got distracted by getting all the replication stuff setup, reliability became the priority. That and the fact Mblox never got back to me with answers to some of my questions even though I pestered them like 3 times... sigh Will get back on to it once all the replication setup is done, so looking forward to that! Rob