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PSWinCom Professional (Using with Notes)


Using PSWinCom Professional with Lotus Notes is simplicity itself.

After installation of PSWinCom Professional on a suitable dedicated machine (W9x/NT/2000) with an analogue modem, ISDN card or terminal adaptor or a GSM handset its simply a case of setting up some rules within the Configuration tool and then performing some simple steps on your Domino server.


PSWinCom Professional

Mostly you would use the PSWinCom Professional "Mail Link" add-on to connect to the Domino server via POP3 and download the messages to the queue.

In the UK you would probably opt to send messages via O2, Vodaphone, or T Mobile's SMS Message Centre via TAP. This is easy to set up but you should note that TAP does not support "sender number". This means that SMS messages received cannot be replied to.

If you wish to implement "sender number" you must use either UCP (meaning connection to a Foreign SMS Message Centre), TCP/IP or a connected GSM device.


Domino set up

The Domino set up is as follows:

1. Set up a new Notes user "SMS Admin/Notes", issue an Internet password and make their mailfile a POP3 account.
2. Create a Foreign Domain document "SMS" and stipulate that the mailfile is that of "SMS Admin/Notes".
3. Edit the design of the mailfile and remove the selection formula in the view named ($POP3) - alternatively drop us a line and we will supply a modified mailfile template.

By doing this you can allow one off SMS messages to be addressed to "number@sms" and also use SMS Messages v3 to create and send bulk messages using the "numbers in subject field method".



Additional notes on e-mail addressing.

The choice is usually number@sms or message to a dedicated mailbox (e.g. SMS Admin/Notes) with the recipent phone number(s) in subject field.

For a one off SMS Message either addressing format is perfectly OK. However in the case of bulk messaging there is a problem with our favoured SMS Server product (PSWinCom Professional) where a message to "number1@sms, number2@sms" does not get processed correctly. This is not a flaw in PSWinCom Professional as it does what it is designed to do. The problem is with Notes Message ID's where although the router creates two messages and delivers them correctly they both carry the same Message ID. The POP3 download into PSWinCom Professional works in this case but since both messages carry the same ID PSWinCom Professional will only process the first message on the basis that the second is a duplication and therefore an error.

To send bulk messages using PSWinCom Professional it is therefore necessary to ensure that the addressing format is "SMS Admin/Notes" with the recipient numbers carried in the subject field.

In Notes terms these two issues mean that careful consideration is required in the Domino set up and the way that users create their messages (both are dealt with at Administrator level in the Setup of SMS Messages v3).