From this version it's possible to send Activation Messages or Installation Messages also via e-mail as well as via Text Messages (SMS). This option is especially useful if customer's device cannot receive texts for any reason. So SMTP Gateway is intended as an alternate way of communication with PrivateGSM.
So far PrivateServer supports two kinds of SMTP configuration:
- generic unauthenticated and unencrypted SMTP
- GMail account's SMTP (which is SSL encrypted and authenticated)
In order to enable such feature in PrivateServer you need either to subscribe to GMail or get your SMTP credentials to be used as set up.
You can reach the SMTP Gateway configuration page by clicking on Message Gateway under the Provisioning menu.
HTTP/S URL: the web service URLEach SMS gateway has its own HTTP API, which are different and its way to authenticate the user. Typical settings are:
- Credentials: username/password or secret key
- Originator: depending on SMS gateway it could be a phone number or a text, shown as the SMS sender
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Please note that SMTP Gateway use as a mean of transportation for provisioning relays also on single account configuration: if no email address field has been filled in, then SMTP option won't be showed. |
To setup SMTP Gateway just select the chosen one and press "Change SMTP Gateway".
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Once you've done, you get SMTP Gateway form back again, but this time your option is already selected and it's the default one till you change it (see
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If you want to configure one specific SMTP Gateway you have to click on the configuration icon, the one shown in
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SMTP
To enable a generic unauthenticated and unencrypted SMTP gateway all needed parameters are:
- hostname (or name of the server)
- port number, if it differs from "25"
- sender of the email
- subject of the email
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Nexmo is our privileged provider for delivering Text messages in the United States. That's the reason why in its configuration form you can read a double entry on the "originator":
- worldwide
- U.S.A only
As a matter of fact in order to deliver text messages to an US mobile number there are some pre-requisites to be match:
- Originator has to be numeric only
- Originator has to be a long US number (not a short one)
- Originator has to be a 2-way number (meaning it can both send and receive text messages)
If some of the above pre-requisites is not observed, then the message could not be delivered.
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Once you inserted all the data in the proper field, just press "Update" button at the bottom of the form as shown in
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Gmail SMTP
To enable authenticated and SSL encrypted SMTP gateway on your GMail account, then you need to know:
- your email address to be used both as sender and as login to the service
- your GMail account's password
- subject of the email
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Of course service port number and SMTP server's hostname are well known and they do not need to be inserted.
Once you inserted all the data in the proper field, just press "Update" button at the bottom of the form as shown in
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