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SMS Bulk Mailings via E-Mail
To send SMS bulk messages by E-mail, you need to compose and send a specially
formatted E-mail message either manually or through your applications. Our system
will receive your E-mail message and will process its contents for bulk delivery.
The number of individual recipients per E-mail request can be arbitrarily large;
also, it is possible to compose a personalized message for each recipient with this
method.
Setting Up the E-Mail Message
To perform bulk delivery via E-mail, you need to compose a message containing the
recipients' phone numbers and the short messages to send to them. You can create such
a list by copying/pasting or importing data from your office application or address
book into your E-mail program. The message text of your E-mail may contain the
following control commands, which must each begin on an own line.
- UID=... (mandatory) specifies the username and password of the WorldXS.net
SMS account to be charged for this mailing. Both items are separated by a comma.
Example: "UID=test1234,passw123".
- ORIG=... (mandatory) specifies the 1-16 digit originator number to appear
on each message.
- DATE=... (optional) specifies the date and time when transmission of this
SMS batch shall start. Example: "DATE=12.09.2000 14:05". If a date (in the
format "Day.Month.Year") is specified, it must also be followed by a
transmission time (24-hour format: "hours:minutes"). The time must be
specified as Central European Time (CET). If no date and time command is found, the
system will start processing the batch as soon as possible after receipt of your
E-mail message.
Apart from the control commands described above, your E-mail must also contain one
or several recipient phone numbers. Each number and associated message (separated by
a comma or semicolon) must begin on a new line. Recipient numbers are listed in
international format (CountrycodeNetworkcodePhonenumber) without leading zero digits.
Example for a U.K. (+44) customer: "4478234343481;This is a test". Each
E-mail request may contain any number of such messages.
If you want to send the response as a Flash SMS (message will appear directly on
the recipient's phone display without being stored in the in-box first), you need to
start the message with a backslash ("\").
Blank lines are allowed and will simply be ignored. Any other message content which
does not conform to the above syntax will lead to an error for security reasons.
From: my.name@my.provider.com
To: our customized address
Subject: any
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UID=test1234,passw123
DATE=15.11.2001 14:05
ORIG=007
393353474788,This is a first test message
41764845511,/This is flash message |
SMS Transmission
SMS transmission will start automatically at the date and time you requested in your
E-mail (or as soon as possible after receipt of the E-mail, in case you did not
specify deferred delivery).
Due to the nature of E-mail, E-mail messages may encounter delays on the way between
your server and our gateway.
More Information
Please contact us.
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