Siemens HiPath Xpressions Unified Messaging user manual Short Message Service SMS for GSM

Short Message Service (SMS) for GSM

Sending Short Messages to GSM Users

Proceed as follows to send an SMS message using Netscape 4.x:

1.Open the Netscape Messenger mail client and select the command for creating a new message.

2.In the To: address field enter the recipient’s address.

Please observe the following rules when entering the address:

– Enter the prefix SMS/

at the beginning of the address– Now enter the telephone number of the mobile phone user in the full international format. In the example above, +43 stands for Austria, 664 is the area code for the A1 network and 7654321 is the user’s number. (The + sign can be omitted).

– Enter the @ character followed by the domain address of your Xpressions server.

3.Leave the Subject: input line blank or enter a message heading for your own archives (en- tries in this line are ignored when the message is sent).

4.Enter the short message in the designated text input area. The message can be up to 160 characters long. The system administrator defines the procedures for sending longer mes- sages (see Section 5.1.2, “SMS Features for GSM”). Special characters are permitted.

Avoid rich text formats (fonts, font sizes, font colors, etc.). Formats of this kind are lost when

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