Ozeki NG E-mail interface
Ozeki NG SMS Gateway makes it possible to
send SMS notifications to mobile devices from your PC. If you have an e-mail
alerting system or you use mail clients and would like to add SMS
functionality to it you just need
to configure the e-mail server (SMTP server) of Ozeki NG SMS Gateway to send
your e-mail messages to mobile phones by converting them into SMS messages.
This article explains how this solution works and how it can be configured.
Introduction
SMS sending is one of the quickest and easiest ways of
communication today. Its simplicity is welcomed also by business and
everyday life. Today it is more and more common that corporations use
SMS in their dealings. Beside SMS messaging, the other popular possibility
is e-mail sending. It is widely accepted as a written
form of communication in businesses and important letters, notices, etc are
sent in emails. Today e-mail alerting systems are also quite common in
organizations. These systems enable administrators to be informed about
malfunctions occurred on computers.
Now you can make your IT environment safer and more effective with the use
of Ozeki NG SMS Gateway to add SMS functionality to your e-mail alerting
system and mail client. Therefore, the two popular messaging methods can
be connected in a very effective way. With this excellent function Ozeki
NG SMS Gateway operates as a two-way E-mail SMS gateway software.
It enables you to get an incoming
E-mail as an SMS text message on a given phone number or phone numbers.
This means that you or the administrator can be informed immediately about
errors and it does not necessary mean going to the server room or even to
the computer to get information about the difficulties. You can enjoy the
benefits of SMS sending from your computer. The received SMS makes immediate
and proper interaction possible, so you can prevent further damages or
system breakdowns.
On this page you can learn more about this function, about the options how
it can be realized and about the configuration of Ozeki NG SMS Gateway to be
able to forward these e-mails as SMS messages.
Option 1 - E-mail to SMS forwarding using a direct SMTP connection to the
built-in SMTP server
The main advantage of this option is the fact that it is
very simple. The SMTP server receives messages only if it is enabled.
The messages are sent to an e-mail address containing a phone number such
as: +441234567@192.168.0.10, where +441234657 is the phone number
and 192.168.0.10 is the IP address of the SMS gateway. The subject and the
body of the e-mail will be sent to the given phone number as an SMS message
as it can contain text. This process will be explained in Figure 1.
Figure 1 - E-mail to SMS forwarding using a direct mail relay
To make this function work you need to configure
192.168.0.10 as the SMTP server for the computer that sends the e-mail
(192.168.0.11).
Configuration guide
You need to configure the built-in SMTP server of Ozeki NG
SMS Gateway to forward e-mail messages as SMS text messages. To do so, open
the server preferences form in the edit menu (Figure 2). Now select the
E-mail to SMS tab, and check the Enable the built in SMTP server in this tab.
Click on OK.
Figure 2 - Enable the SMTP server to make
E-mail to SMS forwarding possible
After this setting, please restart the Ozeki NG SMS Gateway
service in the control panel/administrative tools/services form or restart
your computer.
You can also verify that the SMTP server is running by the
telnet application of Windows. Open a command shell and telnet to port 25
of your computer. If you see a greeting message of Ozeki NG SMS Gateway it
means that the SMTP server is running (Figure 3).
Figure 3 - Verify E-mail to SMS forwarding capability by
checking the SMTP server
Option 2 - E-mail to SMS forwarding through a corporate SMTP server
The other possibility is if you use the e-mail server
(mail.company.com) of your company to receive e-mail messages from your
PC (192.168.0.11) and to send e-mail messages as SMS messages to the built
in SMTP server of Ozeki NG SMS Gateway (Figure 4). It enables your computer
to send standard e-mail messages and e-mails as SMS messages at the same
time.
Figure 4 - E-mail to SMS forwarding using
the corporate mail relay
You need to enable the SMTP server to receive messages
similarly to the previous option, and the format of message sending will
be +441234657@sms.company.com. The subject and the body of the e-mail will
be sent to the given phone number. But in this case in your computer
(192.168.0.11) you need to configure the mail server of your company as
the SMTP server.
If you choose to use this setting then you need to
make a DNS entry which points to your gateway such as:
(sms.company.com -> 192.168.0.10) because most of the e-mail relays of
companies will not forward e-mail messages to IP addresses. This means,
that the +441234567@192.168.0.10 will not be a valid address,
you need to use +441234567@sms.company.com instead.
Configuration guide
You need to configure the built-in SMTP server of
Ozeki NG SMS Gateway to forward e-mail messages as SMS text messages in the
same way as in the previous option. To do so, open the server preferences
form in the edit menu (Figure 5). Now select the E-mail to SMS tab, and
check the Enable the built in SMTP server in this tab. Click on OK.
Figure 5 - Enable the SMTP server to make
E-mail to SMS forwarding possible
After this setting, please restart the Ozeki NG SMS Gateway
service in the control panel/administrative tools/services form or restart
your computer.
You also can verify that the SMTP server is running by the
telnet application of windows. Open a command shell and telnet to port 25 of
your computer. If you see a greeting message of Ozeki NG SMS Gateway it means
that the SMTP server is running (Figure 6).
Figure 6 -Verify E-mail to SMS forwarding
capability by checking the SMTP server
Option 3 - E-mail to SMS forwarding using a POP3 (or IMAP) client connection
and a dedicated POP3 mailbox
The third possibility is if you create a mailbox on the
company's mail server and the Ozeki NG SMS Gateway is configured to download
new messages from it in a certain period of time and send them as e-mail
messages (Figure 7).
Figure 7 - E-mail to SMS forwarding using a POP3 mailbox
In this option you can send these messages to the same
address such as: john@mail.company.com and you need to provide the telephone
number in the subject line of the e-mail, so the body of the message will be
sent in the subject line as an SMS message.
If you would like to configure this solution you need to
create an e-mail
user in Ozeki NG SMS Gateway to download the messages. Please make sure
that the downloaded messages are deleted in order to avoid sending them more
than once.
Configuration guide
In order to configure your SMS gateway software to send
E-mail messages as SMS text messages, please follow the guide below.
First you need to verify that you are able to send SMS from the account of
the admin user over the GSM modem connection. To do so, please click on the
Compose button in the Management console and write then send a message to
your phone number. Next, you need to configure the outbound routing. To do
this, add an out bounding routing rule in which the source is the E-mail
user. To learn more about adding and editing an outbound routing rule,
please, check the
Outbound Routing page. After adding the rule, the automated E-mail user
will convert an incoming e-mail into an SMS message, and this message will
be sent by using the GSM modem connection (Figure 8).
Figure 8 - SMS sent out from the E-mail user
You also need to make the E-mail to SMS configuration in
the E-mail user of Ozeki NG SMS Gateway. Here, you need to define information
related to POP3 server. For further details of configuration steps, please,
visit the
E-mail to SMS
Configuration page.
Finally, you can test your software: you just need to send
an e-mail to the POP3 server from Outlook Express and the Ozeki NG SMS Gateway
downloads it as an SMS message.
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