Re: {bb} Cannot page cellular or send SMS

[Stephen Carville <stephen@heronforge.net>]

Desautels, Roland wrote:
> Hello all:
> 
> I'm trying to have BB send an email AND call a cellular phone. BB sends the
> email all right but does not call the cellular. I'm running BB 2.30 on an NT
> server.
> 
> The bbwarnrules.cfg contains two lines as follows:
> machine1.com  machine2.com;;*;;*;*;myname@mycompany.com
> machine1.com  machine2.com;;*;;*;*;9999999999@txt.bellmobility.ca
> 
> Both addresses (email and cellular) are defined in Outlook. I tested sending
> an SMS to the cellular directly from Outlook and it worked fine.
> 
> What can be the problem? Why can Outlook send the SMS while BB cannot? Is it
> because the address begins with digits?

Check the maillog on each hop until the mail leaves your control.

You may find Bell is dropping you.  A lot of the cell providers have
gotten really strict about what they accept and from whom because of the
spammer problem.

-- 
Stephen Carville -- polluting the ranks of skeptics since 1995.
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