Setup instructions for sending SMS from the email application of Lotus
Notes
In this guide you can read about how to provide
SMS technology to your corporate IT system with the help of an SMS gateway
software. To achieve SMS functionality you need to configure your system to be
able to send SMS messages from the email application of Lotus Notes.
Templates of Lotus Notes help organize your everyday
business dealings. By adding SMS functionality to the email application you will
gain a reliable and effective email template.
To setup an SMS system in your corporate IT environment you need a powerful SMS
Gateway and Lotus Notes. If you configure your system to be able
to send SMS from the email application of Lotus Notes you can improve the
efficiency of communication, and customer and partner relations of your company.
With this solution you can forward information which you have received or sent
in email messages. The body of these received and sent emails will be forwarded
as SMS messages for one or more recipients. Ozeki NG SMS Gateway provides the
SMS functionality for Lotus Notes.
Read this installation guide to find more setup instructions on how to send SMS
messages from email application of Lotus Notes!
Prerequisites
In order to setup this solution you need to find a way
to connect your system to the mobile network. You can do this
by using an Internet connection or you can
setup a wireless connection by attaching a GSM phone/GSM modem to your computer. To help you make a
decision, we have prepared a webpage for you:
Internet based SMS connections vs. GSM modem based (wireless) SMS connections.
Depending
on what you select, you need the following prerequisites.
Prerequisites for Internet based connection to the Mobile network
If you wish to connect your system to an SMS service
provider over the Internet you need the following components:
Figure 1/a - Prerequisites for Ozeki NG SMS
Gateway IP SMS connection
In this case you need to find an SMS service
provider who can reach the mobile phones in your area. This SMS
service provider should be able to provide SMS service through
the Internet. To find such a provider, you can check our
website where we list some of them:
SMPP SMS Service providers.
Once you have found such a provider, you need to sign up for
their service to get the connection parameters. You can use these parameters
to configure your Ozeki NG SMS Gateway software.
Prerequisites for wireless (GSM modem) connection to the Mobile network
If you wish to connect your system to the mobile
network wirelessly, you need a GSM modem or GSM phone, that you
can attach to your computer with a data cable. In this case your Ozeki
NG SMS Gateway software will operate this phone and will send and receive
SMS messages wirelessly. To setup this connection method, you need the following
components:
Figure 1/b - Prerequisites for Ozeki NG SMS
Gateway GSM modem connection
Your checklist (for GSM modem connection):
*The SIM card will come with a plan, that will
determine how much money you will spend on each SMS.
System architecture
With Ozeki's solution you can add SMS extension to Lotus Notes.
It functions as follows: If you want to send SMS from the email application of
Lotus Notes you can compose a message or you can send your
received email as an SMS message to even more recipients. Ozeki NG SMS Gateway
reads it, processes it and forwards it to the mobile phones of the
given recipients. The SMS gateway uses a HTTP request for this process.
You can examine this process in Figure 2.
Figure 2 - Ozeki NG SMS Gateway - solution
for how to send SMS from the email application of Lotus Notes
Configuration guide
To send SMS from the email application of Lotus Notes you just
need to follow these instructions.
The setup of the SMS system in email application of Lotus Notes
is very simple.
First you need to install OzMail.ntf:
If you finish the installation, you need to refresh
the old email template. You need to do this in a way that data should
remain unchanged:
1. To do so copy this Ozeki mail template into
C:\Program Files\IBM\Lotus\Domino\data folder.
2. The template needs to be signed by the
Administrator. To sign it, go to Files pane of Administrator, right
click on the template and click on Sign.
3. Next go to Properties of the
template and select the Design pane. Here check Database file is a
master template box and type OzMail in Template Name line.
4. After
this, open the properties of the older database. Select Design pane and
check the Inherit design from master template field. Type OzMail in
the Template Name line.
5. Finally, go to File/Application/Refresh and click
on Design option in the menu.
Before you send SMS you need to make some settings. You need to provide
the address of Ozeki NG SMS Gateway and the user data also.
Thank you for reading this guide!
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