Re: [hylafax-users] sendpage and from: field

[Daniel Bourque <dbourque@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If I send txt messages via email, ie 1115551234@xxxxxxxxx, the from 
field is populated with the email address of the sender.

Daniel Bourque
Systems/Network Administrator
WeatherData Service Inc
An Accuweather Company

Office (316) 266-8013
Office (316) 265-9127 ext. 3013
Mobile (316) 640-1024



Lee Howard wrote:

> Daniel Bourque wrote:
>
> >    I'm successfully sending out messages to sprint and verizon phones 
> > using sendpage. It's much faster than via email. The only problem is 
> > that when the messages show up on the sprint phones, the messages are 
> > from "8276" . On verizon phones, messages are from <blank>.
>
>
> What does it normally (i.e. via e-mail) say that it's from?  A name, 
> "John Doe", or an e-mail address, "john@xxxxxxx", or a phone number 
> "5556667777"?
>
> >    I've tried using -f with "me", "me@xxxxxxxx , "From: me" , etc, 
> > etc. I've created a text file like this:
> >
> > From: me@xxxxxxxx
> >
> > test test
> >
> > and piped it into sendpage, didn't work ( all newlines are translated 
> > to spaces ). I tried the same thing again, but with \r\n as line 
> > terminators, same result.
> >
> >
> > Does anyone know how to do this ? 
>
>
> If there is anyone at Sprint or Verizon with whom you could discuss 
> this it would be most useful to know what it is that sendpage is doing 
> wrong to not deliver a proper "from".
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lee.


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