2008

MMS Message-ID Length problems with some handsets and/or MM4

Posted by on Jun 4, 2008 in Support Blog

We received a report from a customer that was experiencing a problem where some Nokia handsets would restart themselves after sending an MMS message. The MMS message would be sent ok, but the sending handset would restart after a confirmation is displayed that the MMS message had been sent. This problem was caused because the length of the MMS message-id generated by the NowSMS MMSC was longer...

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Mobile Number Portability (MNP) and the NowSMS MMSC

Posted by on Apr 22, 2008 in Support Blog | 1 comment

The NowSMS MMSC implements a dynamic MMS routing callback facility for environments where more advanced MMS routing capabilities are required. The standard NowSMS MMSC configuration allows for MMS routing based upon phone number prefixes. However, in MNP environments, it may be necessary to query a database to determine how to properly route an MMS message. Dynamic MMS routing callbacks also...

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More Thoughts on the NowSMS Security Issue

Posted by on Feb 27, 2008 in Support Blog

An additional thought … if you are concerned about the potential security issues described in the previous blog entry, but you are also concerned that you do not want to hastily update to NowSMS 2008 without additional testing for your specific application(s), then you may want to enable Data Execution Prevention within Windows on the PC or server that is running NowSMS. As a practice, we...

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NowSMS 2008 and Important Security Issues

Posted by on Feb 26, 2008 in Support Blog

The 2008 edition of the Now SMS & MMS Gateway is now available for download at https://nowsms.com/downloads/. While the primary new feature of this version is improved performance and scalability for configurations that require throughput of 200 messages per second and higher, we want to draw the attention of all customers to this release, as it addresses a security issue that was recently...

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NowSMS Release – 2008.02.22

Posted by on Feb 22, 2008 in Software Updates

This document provides release history information for the current release version of the Now SMS & MMS Gateway, which can be downloaded at https://nowsms.com/download-free-trial. This document covers changes between the last major 2007 release and version 2008.02.22.  An interim update may be available at the following link:   https://nowsms.com/nowsms-update. The release history...

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