RE: {bb} Cannot page cellular or send SMS

["Desautels, Roland" <RDesautels@bellhelicopter.textron.com>]

The problem was with the ``mailrelay'' address whch was set to 127.0.0.1
(the default) and needed to point to a valid email server.

It is interesting to note that IP 127.0.0.1 permitted BB to send me email
thru MS Exchange within the organization. My understanding is that, in order
to send an email outside the organization (i.e. Bell Mobility), the actual
address of the mail server was required.

Roland

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Carville [mailto:stephen@heronforge.net]
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 10:30
To: bb@bb4.com
Subject: Re: {bb} Cannot page cellular or send SMS


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.

-- 
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