Re: Deliver Notification of concatenated msgs

Andreas Fink <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mobile.kannel.devel
Message-ID <p05111b02b92f5c9e0ed1@[10.0.0.20]>
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>>     It is then the job of the handset to intelligently assemble those SMS.
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>>  > >This may not be the right platform to raise this question but am sure
>>  > >somebody out there can help.
>>  > >
>>  > >I wanted to know that when submitting  concatenated short messages to a
>>  > >SMSC, how many Delivery Notifications do I expect from SMSC?  Does SMSC
>>  > >reply with only one Delivery Notification or it replies with separate
>>  > >Delivery Notification for every slice?
>>  > >Does this depend on the capability of the Handset to display a
>concatenated
>>  > >short message as a single message?
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>>  > The code which splits SMS into individual SMS's puts the DLR request
>>  > on the first segment but not on the following ones. This means if a
>>  > user submits one SMS which gets split internally and invisibly
>>  > inside Kannel and gets sent to the SMSC, the user gets one delivery
>>  > notification on reception of the first message.
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>[JS] Why should Kannel be doing anything of this sort? What happens to the
>deliver status report of other segments in such a case if SMSC provides
>separate deliver status reports for each segment (This was my question in
>first place. Can somebody please confirm the SMSC behaviour ?)

Simple: if your application sends 1 large SMS and gets 3 delivery 
reports for 1 SMS sent its getting confused. if your application 
sends 3 SMS parts then it gets 3 delivery reports.

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