For application developers who need to develop 'email to SMS' applications, Clickatell's SMTP connection is a great choice for SMS applications, especially if the customer already has an email messaging system in place. Also for those mobile application developers working on legacy servers, the SMTP is the best connection for server-generated email. |
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This SMS application
is particularly useful for notification alerts. Our SMTP Connection does not allow two-way
SMS messaging but you can make use of our other applications such as HTTP, FTP or SMPP to
receive incoming messages.
Clickatell's SMTP API is popular with applications developers because:
It enables Bulk SMS messaging:
- The industry standard for hi-volume SMS messaging connections.
- Batch sending capability.
- High volume delivery and server-side message merging.
- Offers the end-user the ability to define all elements common to a batch, and then send only the parameters that change on a message-by-message basis.
- Supports most of the functionality of the HTTP API version 2.3.0 including 8-bit messaging and templating.
Special features of the SMTP API:
- Specify a message ID for bulk SMS sending.
- Supports setting maximum credit charges on an account.
- A true ‘email to SMS’ bulk mobile messaging option allowing for greater flexibility customer side.
- Gateway escalation, queuing and delivery delay options.
All of Clickatell’s A2P text messaging solutions offer the following features:
- Almost immediate SMS functionality for any site or application.
- Clickatell’s mobile messaging API’s support text, Unicode, binary SMS, EMS and Flash.
- Our SMS Gateway API’s support extended length messages.
- Clickatell’s mobile messaging API products come with extensive documentation and script libraries, saving you precious development time.
- VCard and VCal converters are available at no charge for logo and ringtone conversions.
- Our SMS Gateway API’s have delivery acknowledgement features and customized sender ID options.
- Two-way text messaging is enabled for most of our products and we can offer this feature in through 819 Networks in 221 Countries.
- Automatic rerouting to an alternative delivery gateway if a message is delayed for a client specified period of time.
- Customer-specified priority level SMS delivery queues.
- SMS delivery delay of up to 7 days (excluding SMPP API).
- Customers can query network coverage as well as text message status for both inbound and outbound messages (push and pull).
You get 10 free message
credits to send pre-populated text messages to test your connection with the Clickatell
SMS Gateway, so take the free trial of our SMTP API now.
How to connect via SMTP:
- Sign up for an SMTP account and you will be given a username, password and api_id: keep these at hand.
- Once you have registered and been activated you will receive 10 free credits with which to test our service.
- Have the number you wish to send to ready in international format e.g. 448311234567.
- Open your Email client (e.g. Microsoft Outlook). Create a new email in text (not html) format. In the address field type: sms@messaging.clickatell.com
- Type your account and message details in the body of the email, laid out as follows
user:xxxxx
password:xxxxx
api_id:xxxxx
to: 448311234567
text:Meet+me+at+home
- The text of your message must be formatted so that '+' signs replace spaces between words as above.
- Press send and your message will be delivered.
Sign up for SMTP
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