Re: How to pickup that you have run out of credits

Hi,

Just for the record - IF kannel did call the dlr-url, the state of the 
message would be NACK/xxx where xxx is the error code (as a decimal 
number, if I remember correct)


Best regards

Peter Christensen

Andreas Fink wrote:
> 
> On 30.11.2005, at 15:55, Hillel wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thanks for your response.
>>
>> Some SMSC providers indicate you have run out of credits by giving 
>> back in
>> the bearerbox.log:
>>
>> 2005-11-28 23:19:10 [27849] [6] ERROR: SMPP[smsc1]: SMSC returned  error
>> code 0x00000058 (Throttling error) in response to submit_sm.
>> 2005-11-28 23:19:10 [27849] [6] DEBUG:   command_status: 88 =   
>> 0x00000058
>>
>> Their reasoning is there is no other parameter in the SMPP spec to 
>> indicate
>> you have run out of credits. When this happens the SMS is not sent and I
>> wondered if there is any way to get back the command_status when 
>> sending an
>> SMS.
> 
> there are other messages the SMSC can send back. Throttling is 
> definitively the wrong response. A real SMSC would not do that (most 
> real SMSC's dont have credit limits and only work postpaid) And frankly 
> having a DLR url for that would mean you get this being called even 
> withouth being out of credit but simply because you send a lot of data 
> quickly. Talk to your provider and ask him to send you back some other 
> error message which is more to the spec. I'm sure you talk to some 
> aggregator software, not a real SMSC.
> 
> I just checked what our SMSC does in this case and it does return 
> ESME_RMSGQFUL if you have a connection bound. If you try to connect, it 
> returns ESME_RBINDFAIL. The problem with throttling is that its only a 
> TEMPORARY failure and Kannel MUST step back and wait a second or two and 
> then continue sending, meaning retrying the SMS over and over again. 
> Thats the purpose of the throttling message. Its there for flow control. 
> So it doesn't make any sense to generate any kind of DLR for it. It 
> would not result in what you are looking for.
> 
> 
> Andreas Fink
> Fink Consulting GmbH
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