Re: disabling incoming SMS

Hello,

If you are using the SMSBOX, did you try to change the password of group =
sendsms-user

Try to add also the global-sender parameter to the group = smsbox , to
restrict certain pre-code like 001 for state etc.... in this way, it will
ignore the none prefix mobile number.

Try to change the smsbox-port if applicable.

Warm Regards

On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 7:47 PM Stuart Kendrick <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I’m seeing a lot of this in my logs:
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> 2019-02-18T19:28:26.526495-08:00 vishnu smsbox[21580]: 2019-02-18 19:28:26
> [21580] [5] INFO: Starting to service
> <#001#006'application/vnd.wap.mms-message> from <1111301000> to <1234>
>
> 2019-02-18T19:28:44.167763-08:00 vishnu smsbox[21580]: 2019-02-18 19:28:44
> [21580] [5] INFO: Starting to service <11111301000 Error Invalid Number.
> Please re-send using a valid 10 digit mobile number or valid short code. No
> service specified> from <+1121611611> to <1234>
>
> […]
>
> 2019-02-19T08:38:24.918834-08:00 vishnu smsbox[21580]: 2019-02-19 08:38:24
> [21580] [5] INFO: Starting to service <11121611611 Error Invalid Number.
> Please re-send using a valid 10 digit mobile number or valid short code. No
> service specified> from <+1121611611> to <1234>
>
> 2019-02-19T08:38:37.474384-08:00 vishnu smsbox[21580]: 2019-02-19 08:38:37
> [21580] [5] INFO: Starting to service <11121611611 Error Invalid Number.
> Please re-send using a valid 10 digit mobile number or valid short code. No
> service specified> from <+1121611611> to <1234>
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> I speculate:  someone has found my cellular modem number and is sending me
> spam.
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> For this application, I transmit SMS over the cellular modem; I don’t want
> to receive anything.
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>    - My carrier (AT&T) tells me that they cannot block in-bound SMS –
>    they can enable bi-directional SMS or disable it:  all or nothing.
>    - I disabled auto-answer on the modem … but this setting appears to
>    govern POTS, not SMS
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>
>
>    - Is there a Kannel way (bearerbox or smsbox) to disable incoming
>    reception of SMS?
>    - Alternatively, is there a way to instruct Kannel to send requests
>    for Invalid Numbers (e.g. ‘1234’) to /dev/null?
>    - Other ideas for dumping these messages?  I’m mostly annoyed by the
>    repetitive logging
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> At the moment, I have a cronjob job which stops bearerox & smsbox, sleeps
> for several minutes (not clear to me why this is necessary), and then
> restarts them.  This of course creates a dead zone, in terms of service,
> which is suboptimal.
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> --sk
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