CDONTS issue (SMS)

[James]

I'm setting up an ASP page that will take a cell phone number/carrier and
e-mail some info as a text message to a client's cell phone. I have the
e-mail addresses for the major cell phone carriers. The problem is, it
seems that certain carriers interpret the HTML BR tag differently. If I use
BR, it shows up "properly" on a Cingular phone, but doesn't break at all on
a Verizon phone. Is there a way I can handle this within CDONTS or is there
some other method I can use? Would vbCrLf work?

Any help would be great,
James

 

[Kyle Peterson]

I send text mail messages via email all the time.
I have been using CDODYS with no trouble.
http://www.powerasp.com/content/new/sending_email_cdosys.asp

trick is send the email as a plain text email... dont send it as html and do
not use html tags
use real line breaks for spaces when you build the email body...

then it will look great on anyones phone

also remeber there is a 110 char limit on the body of cell phone text
messages (or something like that)

 

[Ray Costanzo [MVP]]

Use plain text e-mail.

Also, what server OS are you running? NT4? If 2000 or 2003, instead of
using CDONTS, use CDOSYS.
http://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2026

'......
cdoObject.TextBody = "Hi," & vbCrLf & "I'm on a new line."
'......

Ray at work

 

[Kyle Peterson]

and vbCrLf does work fine for the line breaks.. that is what I have been
using

 

[James]

Is there a standard maximum size? I believe for Verizon it's 160
characters. Not sure about other providers. I'll definitely need to cap it
somehow, just not sure what standard to use.

 

[James]

Set smsMail = Server.CreateObject("CDONTS.NewMail")
smsMail.Subject = "New Order"
smsMail.From = "(e-mail address removed)"
smsMail.To = "(e-mail address removed)"

smsBody = smsBody & fileRS("ClientCode") & vbCrLf
smsBody = smsBody & fileRS("FormType")

This still isn't giving me line breaks on a Verizon Wireless phone. Any
thoughts?

 

[Kyle Peterson]

looks I was using vbCr actually
try that and if that does not work try two in row for troubleshooting sake

here is some of my code

' Here we create a body for the version going to the cell phone
strBody2 = strBody2 & "From " & ContactUs_Name & ":" & vbCr
strBody2 = strBody2 & ContactUs_Body



' send message to cell phone as well
Set ObjSendMail = CreateObject("CDO.Message")

ObjSendMail.Configuration.Fields.Item
("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusing") = 2 'Send the
message using the network (SMTP over the network).
ObjSendMail.Configuration.Fields.Item
("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver") = smtpserver
ObjSendMail.Configuration.Fields.Item
("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserverport") = 25
ObjSendMail.Configuration.Fields.Item
("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpusessl") = False 'Use
SSL for the connection (True or False)
ObjSendMail.Configuration.Fields.Item
("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpconnectiontimeout") =
60

ObjSendMail.Configuration.Fields.Update

ObjSendMail.To = "(e-mail address removed)"

ObjSendMail.Subject = "WebSite: " & ContactUs_Subject
ObjSendMail.From = ContactUs_Email

ObjSendMail.TextBody = strBody2
ObjSendMail.Send
Set ObjSendMail = Nothing

 

[James]

I replaced with double vbCr's. Still no luck on Verizon Wireless.

 

[Kyle Peterson]

dont know what to tell you .. works fine for me