Friday, May 09, 2003
Account history page now resolves destinations to aliases.
I've just uploaded a completely new email-to-SMS implementation. Please play and report any problems: I personally prefer this to logging in to the web all the time when I want to send a message whilst sitting at my computer. This code SHOULD cope with MIME encoded messages and other nasty things. At present, only the first 160 characters of the message are forwarded: this will be changed in the very near future. Functionality is as follows:
To send a message, address it to THEMOBILENUMBER@sms.vgsmail.com (for example 07971123456@sms.vgsmail.com). If you have an alias defined, send the message to myalias@alias.vgsmail.com (for example dad@alias.vgsmail.com). To authenticate the message, you have two options:
On the subject line, put "userid password" (for example, "me mysecret");
Or enable "from-line authentication" in the account setup and just send the message from your registered email account.
You can give out the address of your mobile phone as userid@sms.vgsmail.com, and anything coming in to that address will be forwarded to you. To enable this feature, you have to enable the "accept incoming email" feature in the account setup;
I've just uploaded a completely new email-to-SMS implementation. Please play and report any problems: I personally prefer this to logging in to the web all the time when I want to send a message whilst sitting at my computer. This code SHOULD cope with MIME encoded messages and other nasty things. At present, only the first 160 characters of the message are forwarded: this will be changed in the very near future. Functionality is as follows:
To send a message, address it to THEMOBILENUMBER@sms.vgsmail.com (for example 07971123456@sms.vgsmail.com). If you have an alias defined, send the message to myalias@alias.vgsmail.com (for example dad@alias.vgsmail.com). To authenticate the message, you have two options:
On the subject line, put "userid password" (for example, "me mysecret");
Or enable "from-line authentication" in the account setup and just send the message from your registered email account.
You can give out the address of your mobile phone as userid@sms.vgsmail.com, and anything coming in to that address will be forwarded to you. To enable this feature, you have to enable the "accept incoming email" feature in the account setup;
Thursday, May 08, 2003
Just reconfigured httpd to optimize for speed and the pages seem to appear a lot quicker for me now: let me know if it causes any problems.
Full message details (including text) are now available from the 'account history' page by clicking the message you are interested in.
Full message details (including text) are now available from the 'account history' page by clicking the message you are interested in.
Tuesday, May 06, 2003
The rather slow loop-back tests which have run today seem to be a bug in the loop-back timer, and do not accurately reflect delivery time. I think I have fixed the code.
A very small change has been made to the java client (you should now get a 'message sending' alert before being returned to the text composition page). Usual OTA update should get you version 1.1.1 (http://sms.vgsmail.com/ota).
A very small change has been made to the java client (you should now get a 'message sending' alert before being returned to the text composition page). Usual OTA update should get you version 1.1.1 (http://sms.vgsmail.com/ota).
Monday, May 05, 2003
More web-page cleaning underway.
Account options (including the 'from-line' authentication) can now be changed in the web-interface. Keep an eye on this page: many more options coming soon.
Account options (including the 'from-line' authentication) can now be changed in the web-interface. Keep an eye on this page: many more options coming soon.
Sunday, May 04, 2003
Web-pages cleaned up a bit and are more consistent. I've tried to avoid using anything which might break browsers, but I have used tables quite extensively. If this causes any problems, and the wap interface isn't an alternative, please let me know and I'll provide a stripped down version.
I'm now getting ready for the official release, which will involve a few days of code-tidying and bug checking. As part of this process, there is now a system status page.
I'm now getting ready for the official release, which will involve a few days of code-tidying and bug checking. As part of this process, there is now a system status page.
