Re: [nznog] Email to SMS gateway

A few years ago I spoke to someone deep within Vodafone, and I asked if they were planning on adding "return receipts" or a delivery acknowledgment feature, that Telecom seems to provide, and they quoted that all encompassing "Privacy Act" as the reason they did not want to provide that / turn it on. They provided the most ridiculous scenario of someone asking someone to marry them, and they never getting the text message or something.. Anyway, if someone can tell me otherwise, as far as I know, Vodafone don't provide return receipts / delivery acknowledgments. They also don't provide Time Sync, as the CDMA network seems to provide, but that's another issue. On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 12:57 +1200, Mark Derricutt wrote:

For most 'alerts' or notifications the lack of a response may acceptable, and most of the email2sms solutions don't provide receipts, thou using a modem directly you should be able to configure it to request receipts - although that in may only be a receipt that the message was received by the carrier, and not the handset. Some of the receipts we see when sending via SMPP or Telecoms new UAS service (SMPP replacement) are 'number unreachable' (bad number, or blocked off-net number), 'not received' (handset was off for too long so message expired), 'received', 'no funds' (for prepay) amongst others.

On 4/17/07, Gerard Creamer wrote: Still relies on the txt message getting sent by Vodafone though, and as there's no ACK on a txt it's not guaranteed, but has been fairly reliable over the years. The SMS modems seem to die after 3 years, but apart from that it's been great :^)

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