FWH & Text Messages

[TimStone]

Has anyone tried sending text messages from FWH ? Some of my clients would like to do that from the application I provide.

[Gale FORd]

All carriers have an email address you can send the message to and it automatically converts it to text message for delivery. We like this method because it goes through our email system so there is a copy in sent folder and email archive.

Here is some info I send users on a regular basis.
Here is a link that lists most carriers email/text message addresses: http://www.hurt911.org/investigation/sms-text-message-address.html

You can send an email from Outlook to someone’s phone as a text message, and you can have someone send a text message from their phone to an email address.

Example 1 Send email to text on person’s phone with AT&T account:
Send the email to phonenumber@txt.att.net and it will be automatically converted to text message and sent to their phone.
Make sure you send your email in a plain text format with no attachments.
You can find out what address to use by having that person send a text to your email account (see example 2 below). When it arrives in your inbox you can see the return address.
• Alltel: phonenumber@message.alltel.com
• AT&T: phonenumber@txt.att.net
• T-Mobile: phonenumber@tmomail.net
• Virgin Mobile: phonenumber@vmobl.com
• Sprint: phonenumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com
• Verizon: phonenumber@vtext.com
• Nextel: phonenumber@messaging.nextel.com
• US Cellular: phonenumber@mms.uscc.net
• Cricket: phonenumber@sms.mycricket.com
For a complete list you can go here: http://www.hurt911.org/investigation/sm ... dress.html or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_SMS_gateways

Example 2 - person send text message to someone’s email account:
Fire up SMS on your phone, but instead of entering in a number you want to text, enter an email address. Any email address. Compose your text like normal, hit Send, and your carrier will automatically convert your text msg. to an email and deliver it to their inbox.

[George]

Tim,
As explained by Gale you can send "messages" to phone number by using the below code and SMTP FW Class.
This is free but you need to know the recipient's carrier.

Alternatively you can send through Skype with only knowing the recipient's phone number, but Skype charges 11.2 cents for each message sent.

Regards,

George

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 FUNCTION SendSMSByPC()
    LOCAL cMessage, cPhone, cSubject, cCarrier

    cMessage := "Hello world!"
    cPhone := "9999999999" // 10 Digits phone number for USA phones
    cSubject := "Sending SMS from my PC"
    cCarrier := "@txt.att.net" // For AT&T
    cRecipient := cMyPhone + cCarrier

    SendSMSEmail(cRecipient, cMessage, cSubject)
 RETURN (.T.)


 FUNCTION SendEmailSMS(cRecipient, cMessage, cSubject)
    LOCAL oOutMail, cIP

    oWnd:SetMsg( "Sending SMS..." )
    WSAStartup()
    syswait(.25)
    oOutMail := TSmtp():New( cIP := GetHostByName( "smtp.comcast.net" ), 587, TRUE, "UserName", "Password" )
    oOutMail:bConnecting = { || oWnd:SetMsg( "Connecting to smtp.comcast.net..." ) }
    syswait(.25)
    oOutMail:bConnected  = { || oWnd:SetMsg( "Connected" ) }
    syswait(.25)
    oOutMail:bDone       = { || oWnd:SetMsg( "Message sent successfully" ) }
    oOutMail:SendMail( "YourEmail@comcast.net",; // From
        { cRecipient },;                          // To
        cMessage,;                                // Msg Text
        cSubject,;                                // Subject
        { "" } )                                  // attached files
        syswait(.25)

RETURN NIL
 

[TimStone]

Thanks. I'm aware of that method but the downside is knowing the carrier.

I thought I would ask to see if anyone had something more current or direct. Implementing that methodology is not a problem since I have the email setup already in place.

Tim

[Gale FORd]

I think there is a free add on to Outlook called Outlook Mobile Service. I have not used it but supposedly you can send text messages from Outlook. Here is more info: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/introduction-to-outlook-mobile-service-HA010107892.aspx
With that add on you might be able to use Ole or Mapi to send through outlook.

[TimStone]

That is for Outlook 2007. It doesn't appear to be supported in more recent versions.

[rhlawek]

Tim,

I'm not sure it is applicable to your needs but there is a FWH example for using whatsapp, \fwh\samples\whatsapp.prg

I've never tried this sample, I'm not sure what it can or cannot do.

Robb

[Antonio Linares]

Robb, Tim,

It seems as the whatsapp protocol changed a few times since then making it unusable

[anserkk]

Dear Mr.Tim,

There are many SMS service providers. The SMS data is sent from your PC via internet to the service provider's gateway. From the SMS providers gateway it will be send to individual mobile phones. Once you buy their package they will provide an API to access their gateway.

Using FWH, you can send SMS from your app using

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CREATEOBJECT('WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1')
 

Regards
Anser