Re: Message length limit

No, you cannot do that, it is in a violation of the SMS spec. After all SMS 
stands for "Short Messaging System". If you want to create an SMSc just for 
you, be my guest, but it won't be able to handle any other traffic other 
than yours.

BR,
Nikos
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Luca Corti" <[email protected]>
To: "Mohammed Saleem" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 6:12 PM
Subject: Re: Message length limit


> On Sat, 2010-10-30 at 13:11 +0200, Mohammed Saleem wrote:
>> Check the documentation, these variables would be helpful in the
>> sendsms-user group but I haven't used disabled them before
>> max-messages
>> number
>>
>> concatenation
>> bool
>>
>
>
> I see, but my question is a bit different. I don't wan't to send
> multiple messages which are then handled as a single message by the end
> device.
>
> What I want to do is implementing an smsc driver which talks with its
> smsc over a protocol which allows messages to be larger than standard
> SMS messages.
>
> So the question is, if I implement such a driver, will kannel allow me
> to inject such large messages via sendsms, queue them and then ship them
> to my smsc driver even if the message text is larger than the standard
> SMS 160 charachters limit?
>
> Hope the question is clearer now.
>
> ciao
>
> Luca
>
>