That makes it very hard to know what part to truncate. As some mail providers will see parts of the HEADER of the mail as part of the actual mail while others will see the header as something different then the body; idem how will the mail provider handle the CR LF chars within the message, will it be removed, handled as 1 or as 2 chars. Several unknown parameters. >From my point of view SA is able to handle the size of SMS messages correctly >if you use the sms (alpha paging) alert that is made for it. If you're using mail (SMTP) for SMS messages, then it's something that should be handled on the level of the gateway (not the sender app).
I don't think that generaly speaking this is something that is needed within SA. If however you feel that you realy need this in SA, we can always do a custom (paid) change to SA for this. Dirk Bulinckx. -----Original Message----- From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Passow Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 4:46 PM To: Servers Alive Discussion List Subject: Re: [SA-list] (Off topic) SMS truncating Sorry I should have been more clear. Thank you though. I am not using sms directly because I do not have an sms card here. I am using the email address assigned to my phone and I am sending via smtp. This uses the providers sm to sms gateway which is what has changed. Jason Passow Mississippi Welders Supply [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: (507) 494-5178 fax: (507) 454-8104 "If you do everything right, nobody will realize you've done anything at all." Dirk Bulinckx wrote: > By default we send the SMS message with a max size of 160 chars as that is by > default the normal max length allowed for SMS Messages. > And by default if the message is longer then 160 chars, you loose the rest. > > However this can be altered via 2 settings (registry settings): > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\DBU Consulting\Servers Alive\Paging\MaxMessageSize > (dword) > => defines the max size of 1 message > > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\DBU Consulting\Servers Alive\Paging\SplitLongMessage > (dword) > => if the value if 1 then we will splitt the message in parts (based on > the maxmessagesize) and send several messages if needed > > > Dirk Bulinckx. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Jason Passow > Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 2:55 PM > To: Servers Alive Discussion List > Subject: [SA-list] (Off topic) SMS truncating > > I have some of my more important salive alerts set to send to my cell > phone and my email. My provider has changed their SMS gateway. They > used to allow me truncate my messages and receive only one per Salive > message. That is generally enough to know what is happening. Now they > do not have that option and I receive two alerts per message (double the > text message fees). I know most of you are going to tell me to create a > shorter message. That will be difficult and time consuming since I > have no way to change these messages except removing my cell and then > re-adding a new alert for mobile. If anyone has a better way of doing > I would be happy to hear but it seems I would have to add a new alert > to these more important checks anyway. My real question is does > anyone know of an email provider (gmail, yahoo, hotmail, etc) or a > program that will allow me truncate these messages and forward them? > > Dirk any chance of building truncation into the code. Seems to me > (non-programmer) that one could identify (via checkbox or something) a > mobile number/email and truncate it to a certain number of characters. > Perhaps if it is easy it could be done and if not then I am sure most > will tell you to not waste your time. > > To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE as subject to [email protected] If you use auto-responders (like out-of-the-office messages), then make sure that they are not send to the list nor to the individual members of the list that send a message. Doing this will get you removed from the list. To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE as subject to [email protected] If you use auto-responders (like out-of-the-office messages), then make sure that they are not send to the list nor to the individual members of the list that send a message. Doing this will get you removed from the list.
