Re: [Smslink-users] sent sms messages

[Philippe A. <pa...@ib...>]

Hello Uri,

Oriol Bardés Robles wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just set up  a new smslink installation (SMS-Link for Linux, ver 
> 0.56b-3) on a Red Hat  system.
> Everything is working fine so far but there is a question I haven't been 
> able to solve yet.
> I am not using  the MySQL backend and I would expect all the sent sms 
> messages to be stored in text files under the directory 
> /var/spool/smslink/outbox.
The purpose of the outbox is not to store all outgoing messages. It's a 
temporary holding area for queued messages. Instead of attempting an 
immediate send, you can ask the server to accept your message (it will 
store it in the outbox), and then to send it at a later time, during an 
outbox poll. The advantage is that the submission from the client is 
always fast and highly likely to be successful. Also, since the server 
is allowed to retry sending queued messages several times, the 
probability of eventual success is also much higher. The down side is 
that it may take more time for the message to be sent.

> 
> The point is that all sms messages simply get vanished after being 
> successfully sent.
That's how it works in your setup. If you really want to keep a trace of 
every sent message, you can do this:

- install MySQL and recompile SMSLink with MySQL support.

- configure sms_serv for DB access and outbox check.

- always "queue" messages instead of "send"ing them (this makes sure 
that they are stored in the database.

- once the server has successfully sent them, they are flagged as 
"sent", but the records are kept in the DB => you can always query the 
DB to retrieve them.

HTH

Cheers. Bye.

Ph. A.

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