[JDEV] SMS Transport Ideas

[Rodolphe Duge de Bernonville]

On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 01:56:41PM +0800, Migs Paraz wrote:
> Hi,
> I'd like to write a transport for sending messages to an SMS gateway.
> At present my gateway that is send-only; I do not have the ability to
> receive SMS messages.
> 
> We need some sort of credit system since we are paying for the messages.
> 
> My current thinking is to let the JID contain:
> - the user's GSM phone number
> - amount of credits remaining
> 
> When a user sends the message to the gateway (say to my number as
> 639178109728 at sms.internet.org.ph), the component sms.internet.org.ph will
> use the sender's mobile number as the 'from' number, such that when I reply,
> it will go to that person's mobile phone.
> 
> Will Jabber work well with such 'one way' messaging?
> 
> Is there any work on a framework for 'unified messaging' so we can 
> collaborate on the work?

yes it works fine (http://download.jabber.org/contribs/sms*)
you can also use the vcard to find the phone number of a user
so you can also use jabber filter (ie i am not here so i redirect all
offline message to the sms gateway ...).