Awesome. On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 10:32 PM Stuart Kendrick <stua...@alleninstitute.org> wrote:
> 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> 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 > > > > > >
