I ended up adding my modem’s phone number to the white-list line. This seems to be working as desired – no more spam.
# Smsbox related group = smsbox bearerbox-host = localhost global-sender = xxxxxxxxxx white-list = xxxxxxxxxx where ‘xxxxxxxxxx’ is really my modem’s phone number --sk From: Web Min <meweb...@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 8:57 AM To: Stuart Kendrick <stua...@alleninstitute.org> Cc: users@kannel.org Subject: Re: disabling incoming SMS Hello, If you are using the SMSBOX, did you try to change the password of group = sendsms-user Try to add also the global-sender parameter to the group = smsbox , to restrict certain pre-code like 001 for state etc.... in this way, it will ignore the none prefix mobile number. Try to change the smsbox-port if applicable. Warm Regards On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 7:47 PM Stuart Kendrick <stua...@alleninstitute.org<mailto:stua...@alleninstitute.org>> wrote: I’m seeing a lot of this in my logs: 2019-02-18T19:28:26.526495-08:00 vishnu smsbox[21580]: 2019-02-18 19:28:26 [21580] [5] INFO: Starting to service <#001#006'application/vnd.wap.mms-message> from <1111301000> to <1234> 2019-02-18T19:28:44.167763-08:00 vishnu smsbox[21580]: 2019-02-18 19:28:44 [21580] [5] INFO: Starting to service <11111301000 Error Invalid Number. Please re-send using a valid 10 digit mobile number or valid short code. No service specified> from <+1121611611> to <1234> […] 2019-02-19T08:38:24.918834-08:00 vishnu smsbox[21580]: 2019-02-19 08:38:24 [21580] [5] INFO: Starting to service <11121611611 Error Invalid Number. Please re-send using a valid 10 digit mobile number or valid short code. No service specified> from <+1121611611> to <1234> 2019-02-19T08:38:37.474384-08:00 vishnu smsbox[21580]: 2019-02-19 08:38:37 [21580] [5] INFO: Starting to service <11121611611 Error Invalid Number. Please re-send using a valid 10 digit mobile number or valid short code. No service specified> from <+1121611611> to <1234> I speculate: someone has found my cellular modem number and is sending me spam. For this application, I transmit SMS over the cellular modem; I don’t want to receive anything. * My carrier (AT&T) tells me that they cannot block in-bound SMS – they can enable bi-directional SMS or disable it: all or nothing. * I disabled auto-answer on the modem … but this setting appears to govern POTS, not SMS * Is there a Kannel way (bearerbox or smsbox) to disable incoming reception of SMS? * Alternatively, is there a way to instruct Kannel to send requests for Invalid Numbers (e.g. ‘1234’) to /dev/null? * Other ideas for dumping these messages? I’m mostly annoyed by the repetitive logging At the moment, I have a cronjob job which stops bearerox & smsbox, sleeps for several minutes (not clear to me why this is necessary), and then restarts them. This of course creates a dead zone, in terms of service, which is suboptimal. --sk
