E-mail to SMS Configuration
This section provides you with step-by-step
instructions on how to configure the E-mail user of the Ozeki NG -
SMS Gateway software to forward an incoming e-mail as an SMS message
to a specified phone number.
The E-mail user, which is one of the installable users
of Ozeki NG - SMS Gateway, can forward an incoming e-mail as an SMS
message to a specified phone number. It will periodically download e-mails
from a POP3 e-mail account and forward the first 160 characters of the body
of an e-mail to the phone number specified in the configuration form of the
user. It can also forward an e-mail as an SMS message to a phone number
(or phone numbers) specified in the subject line of the e-mail (Figure 1).
Figure 1 - Incoming e-mail sent out as SMS
After the installation of the E-mail user (for installation instructions,
check out the E-mail User page),
you can start to configure it using the
graphical user interface of the
software.
After specifying a unique username for the E-mail user,
which is the last step of the
installation,
the E-mail to SMS tab of the Configuration panel will show up.
This tab consists of POP3 server, Recipient settings, Filter
e-mail messages and Advanced section (Figure 2).
Figure 2 - The E-mail to SMS tab
As mentioned above, Ozeki NG - SMS Gateway can periodically
download incoming
e-mail messages from a POP3 account. The downloaded e-mail messages will
be forwarded by SMS to a specified phone number. The subject
line of the e-mail can also contain telephone numbers.
In the POP3 Server edit box in the POP3
settings section, specify the address of the server.
In the Port edit box, enter the number of the POP3 port.
In the POP3 Username edit box, specify the username
of the POP3 user account.
In the POP3 Password edit box,
specify the password of the POP3 user account.
In the Download interval edit box, you can specify how
often the program should check the POP3 account for new messages to download.
In the Recipient settings section, specify
a recipient phone number in the Send SMS to phone numbers edit box.
This is the phone number that the SMS (the first 160 characters of the
e-mail) will be sent to. Specify it in international format, starting
with the leading plus sign (+). You can check the following two check boxes:
Use phone numbers included in the e-mail subject and Use phone numbers
in the to address (+36123647@domain.com format) if it is required
If you check the Use phone numbers included in the e-mail
subject
checkbox below, the SMS will be sent to the phone number(s) in the subject line
of the e-mail if it contains any. In this case, the SMS message will not be sent
to the phone number specified in the Send SMS to (phone number) edit box.
It will only be sent to the phone number(s) specified in the e-mail subject line.
If it contains more than one phone number, they have to be
separated with a semicolon. It should look something like this:
+36703384532;+36303658734;+36203462111
Figure 3 - The Recipient settings section
In the Filter e-mail messages section, you can make
specifications as to
which e-mails should be forwarded as SMS messages to one or more mobile phones.
As you may receive a large number of e-mails (including a great deal of spam),
you may have to pay a large amount of money if all of them are
forwarded via SMS. Therefore, it is advisable to specify the sender(s),
the receiver(s) and the keyword(s) in the subject lines of the e-mails
to be forwarded via SMS (Figure 4).
Figure 4 - The Filter e-mail messages section
In the From e-mail address(es) edit box, you can
specify the e-mail address(es) from which e-mails should be forwarded via
SMS (e.g.: somebody100@hotmail.com). You can enter one or more e-mail addresses,
separated with a semicolon (;).
In the To e-mail address(es) edit box, you can specify
the e-mail address(es) of recipients whose incoming e-mails should be forwarded
via SMS (e.g.: somebody100@yahoo.com). You can enter one or more e-mail
addresses, separated with a semicolon (;).
In the Keyword(s) in Subject edit box you can specify
one or more keywords that should be included in the subject line(s) of email(s)
to be forwarded via SMS (e.g.: order). You can enter one or more keywords,
separated with a semicolon (;).
The specifications in Figure 4 above will result in the
E-mail user forwarding only e-mails sent from somebody100@hotmail.com to
somebody100@yahoo.com, including the keyword "order" in their subject lines.
You could add other sender and recipient e-mail addresses or keywords in
the respective edit box, which would increase the set of e-mails to be
forwarded as SMS messages.
If you need different specifications, e.g. you want the
E-mail user to forward an e-mail only if the sender address is
somebody100@hotmail.com, the recipient is someone200@yahoo.com, and the
keyword is "invoice", you need to add and configure another E-mail user.
If you put someone200@yahoo.com next to somebody100@yahoo.com, and "invoice"
next to "order", the number of possible combinations of the sender address,
the recipient address and the keyword will be increased. As a result, if
an e-mail is from somebody100@hotmail.com, the recipient is
somebody100@yahoo.com and the keyword is "invoice", then the email will
be forwarded as an SMS message. To avoid this, specify the sender, the
recipient and the keyword in the Filter e-mail messages section in the
Configuration panel of a different E-mail user. (You can add,
install and configure as many users as you like.)
In Advanced section you can enable the following
options: Send e-mail to sender if SMS was delivered to network,
Send e-mail to sender if SMS was delivered to handset, Send
e-mail to sender if SMS was not delivered because of an error.
In the Maximum message length edit box, specify how many
of the first characters of the e-mail message should be sent as an SMS message.
Enter the number in numerical format representing
a positive whole number. If you specify a larger number than 160,
a concatenated (i.e. more than one) SMS message will be sent. A long message will
be split into single pieces. Then, each piece can contain a maximum of
153 characters. This is because the information for concatenation needs to
be stored in the SMS. Each piece will be sent as a single SMS message.
When they reach the destination, the recipient mobile phone
will combine them back to one long message. If you are content
with the default value (160) in the edit box, leave it unchanged.
If you check the Include the sender e-mail address in the
SMS checkbox, you can include the sender e-mail address at the beginning
of the downloaded e-mail message (Figure 5).
Figure 5 - The Advanced tab
To find out how to configure the E-mail user of the
Ozeki NG - SMS Gateway to send an incoming SMS message as an e-mail,
check out the SMS to
E-mail Configuration page.
For detailed instructions on how to realize a two-way
E-mail - SMS gateway service, check out the
How to Set up an E-mail -
SMS Gateway page.
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