Sending SMS text

[Noél Dubau]

Hello,

I found a lot of discussions about sending emails (the sample file contains also some samples), but nothing about sending text messages to phone numbers.

Is that possible or not ? In the first case can you give me links and ideas ?

Thanks

Noël

[MartieH]

if you have the recipient's cell carrier, you can send a text via email within FMP - if you google this, you will find a list of carriers and the proper syntax for sending texts to each -- for example - a recipient using Verizon would be:  [email protected]

 

if you don't know the recipient's cell carrier, you cannot do this.

 

hth,

Martie

[Noél Dubau]

Hello Martie,

Thank you for that answer. The first problem 'll be to find these carriers for mobile phone providers in France and test !

The second one is to ask the users in the association to give that information, and perhaps they'll not agree...

Noël

 

[Noél Dubau]

Hello,

Unfortunately, after a lot of queries, it seems that what is possible in USA is not in France ! I can't find for every mobile cell society (Orange, Free, sfr...) the information of the carrier !

There's only a paying solution throuh services like BulkSMS

Noël

[Claus Lavendt]

Noel, you need to get an account with a SMS gateway. Most phone providers in many countries has closed for their service to forward an email as sms to a phone.

Anyway, to make sure it all goes through and the service is reliable, you should definitely use a good gateway.

I have been using a great one for many years, and it works every time.

The way I send the sms is by using http post, which you can now do in FM13 via InsertFromURL script step. Though I have created a SM function, and have used that since fm10.

I have been around some cheaper gateways, but you really get what you pay for…. or that is, one of my customers actually paid up-front a considerable amount, and then the company bankrupted….