To send an SMS message
via a menu driven interface, please see
the help section titled “
Web
Menu Interface”.
This section describes how to send a voice
mail notification message programmatically
via URL parameters.
Voice Mail Notification Messages are
special SMS messages that are used to
tell the user that they have voice mail
waiting. On most mobile phones, the
phone displays a message prompt, and
the user can press a single key to be
transferred to voice mail. This voice
mail phone number is configurable via
the mobile phone settings.
Voice Mail Notification Messages would
be most often used in conjunction with
voice mail systems. For example, a user
may wish to combine their mobile phone
voice mail with their office voice mail
in a single voice mailbox. One way of
accomplishing this is to configure the
mobile phone to forward to an office
phone number when the mobile phone is
busy or unavailable, instead of the
standard setting of forwarding to the
mobile voice mail system (this setting
can be configured via the mobile phone).
If the user is unavailable, the office
voice mail system assumes responsibility
for accepting a voice mail message.
The office voice mail system would be
configured to make a request via the
SMS gateway to turn on and off voice
mail notifications for the mobile phone
user.
http://127.0.0.1:8800/?PhoneNumber=xxxxxxxx&VoiceMail=On
For 127.0.0.1, please substitute the
IP address or host name assigned to
your gateway PC. (Note: 127.0.0.1 is
a local loopback address that can be
utilized when you are connecting to
the gateway from the same computer.)
For 8800, please substitute the port
number that the gateway is configured
to use.
Substitute the phone number that you
wish to send the SMS message to for
the “xxxxxxxx” in the “PhoneNumber”
parameter. Use either the local phone
number format, or the international
phone number format (your network provider
may or may not allow you to send to
international phone numbers). If the
international phone number format is
used, note that you must substitute
“%2B” for the “+”
character, because of URL escaping restrictions.
For example, to send an SMS to +447778001210,
use %2B447778001210 instead.
The “VoiceMail” parameter
can be either “On” or “Off”,
turning the notification on or off respectively.
