setting up a carrier for messaging

[pshuster]

I am trying to get NotePager to work without luck. I want to use the internet to send text messages to a cell phone. My carrier is Rogers.
1) which Protocol do I use

I have tried email and smtp and snpp for messaging. smtp was rejectted bu amtp.rogerswireless.data and SNPP would not even connect to the rogers setting Support gives.

I use my 10 digit phonenumber and the '@pcs.rogers.com and I believe that ius correct ( putting a '1' in front of the area code did not work for smtp.

[Tech Support]

If you want to deliver the messages by internet and you want to send to a Rogers phone, the best protocol to use is SMTP:

1) Left click on the Carriers menu.

2) Left click on Add.

3) Name the carrier: SMTP

4) Change the Protocol to: SMTP

5) Your Local Domain needs to be set to the latter half of your email address.

6) Enter in your Primary DNS into DNS Server 1 and your Secondary DNS into DNS Server 2. If you're not sure what either of these are, please contact your internet service provider or network admin and ask them.
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1) Now that the Carrier has been added, left click on Recipients.

2) Left click on Add.

3) You can name the recipient whatever you like.

4) The Type should be normal and change the Carrier to SMTP.

5) In the "Email To" field, enter: 10digitcelnumber@pcs.rogers.com

6) Make sure that Alpha and Drop non-printable characters are cheked.

7) Click on Apply.

[pshuster]

I have tyried what you suggest. It doesn't work and the reason seems to be that the email sent to the mail server uses the mail Sent:Mail From:' incorrectly.

If my local domain is 'abc.com', the SENT FROM: is '@abc.com'

Whatever I enter for the local domain has an '@' inserted infront when the message is sent.

I also get ' Received:500 Syntax Error. (Try again using SMTP)^^

[Tech Support]

You need a sender's name. If you go into Tools - Settings - General, enter something without spaces into the Sender's Name field. Also, make sure the local domain matches whatever your email domain really is. For example, I would use notepage.com as my local domain because that's what I want people to see as where my messages came from. Also, I would use support as my sender's name.

[PaulJackson]

I have been battling with this forever and the problem always came down to Notepager not having a field for Authorization/password. Whenever you're setting Rogers email up you need the account name and password. Notepager doesn't allow for a password and so when you send the text it gets thrown out by the server.
I have tried all the other protocols and finally found a solution using SNPP which is better than SMTP anyway.

Carrier setup:
1. Carrier : RogersSNPP (or whatever you want to call it)
2. Protocol : SNPP (from drop down list)
3. Host : 205.205.178.15
4. Password : Leave blank
5. Port : 444
6. Max Chars: 240 (didn't change this so maybe more will work too)
7. Msg Limit : 0

Recipient setup:
1. Full Name : Recipient name (whatever you want to call it)
2. Short Name: Grey'd out
3. Type : Normal
4. Carrier : RogersSNPP (or whatever you used in Carrier step 1.)
5. ID/PIN : ########## (ten digit phone number inc. area code)
6. Comment1 : Blank
7. Comment2 : Blank
8. Max Chars : 240
9. Notify Code : 999
10. check the boxes for Alpha and Drop non-printable characters

This works perfectly for me every time and is very quick. I send my messages from the rogers network (cable) and I have a rogers phone. I think it should also work even if you're connecting to a different internet service providor but the recipient has to be a rogers cellphone user.

Hope this helps - Paul