SNPP, e-mail and MAXLENGTH

I'm not trying to write a Net::Something module about a new protocol. Instead i want to give a high level and simple interface to sending SMS through the free web services available online.

I don't know what's the situation with SMS in the US, but here in Europe no much people have e-mail gateway. Anyway my base WWW::SMS accept any kind of submodule that conforms to the standards i'm going to set, so there will be no problem i think in writing one that make use of an e-mail gateway.

About different sizes of SMS, well, the MAXLENGTH exportable constant of submodules is just for that :)

Anyway i started a project on sourceforge: sources are already there so you can take a look at latest evolutions.

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Re: SNPP, e-mail and MAXLENGTH by rrwo (Friar) on Oct 19, 2001 at 07:03 UTC
You could try connecting directly to the E-mail server for the particular service. (Most services document this.) If somebody can connect to the Internet, they can directly connect to a service's E-mail server to send mail to a user on that server, and likely they can use SNPP directly, unless there are firewall issues. Anyway, you should look at those modules I referred to. If nothing else, web gateways to SMS are not standardized like search engine interfaces, so your code may break every time the service provider decides to redesign their pages.	[reply]

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Re: SNPP, e-mail and MAXLENGTH
by rrwo (Friar) on Oct 19, 2001 at 07:03 UTC

You could try connecting directly to the E-mail server for the particular service. (Most services document this.)

If somebody can connect to the Internet, they can directly connect to a service's E-mail server to send mail to a user on that server, and likely they can use SNPP directly, unless there are firewall issues.

Anyway, you should look at those modules I referred to. If nothing else, web gateways to SMS are not standardized like search engine interfaces, so your code may break every time the service provider decides to redesign their pages.

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