
A31003-S2330-B690-2-7619, January 2003
HiPath Xpressions V3.0, User Manual
5-3
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