Does anyone know how to access the Google API to send out text messages?
Here's my story.. I wote a nifty little VB program to send an Email to all the major SMS gateways in Canada. My customer can type his message and spam all the SMS gateways. If the recipient doesn't belong to a given cell provider, that provider's SMS gateway will just ignore the message. When we finally hit the right provider, they will deliver the message to the right person. GREAT!
Problem is stupid Rogers Wireless. They send a message out to anyone - customer or not. So the recipient gets his text from his provider as intended (Bell for example). Then he also gets a 2nd text from Rogers saying "you have a text but you are not subscribed to our text message service."
This is confusing to the recipient and looks unprofessional. There's no way to get Rogers to change their SMS gateway's behavior. I need to use a high level SMS gateway provider who will deliver the message just to the one right provider. Something like CDYNE. But they charge money.
So I remembered that Gmail and Google Voice have high level SMS gateway ability - both will send out free SMS text messages. I hope they provide an API you can access via VB6.
Any ideas?
Here's my story.. I wote a nifty little VB program to send an Email to all the major SMS gateways in Canada. My customer can type his message and spam all the SMS gateways. If the recipient doesn't belong to a given cell provider, that provider's SMS gateway will just ignore the message. When we finally hit the right provider, they will deliver the message to the right person. GREAT!
Problem is stupid Rogers Wireless. They send a message out to anyone - customer or not. So the recipient gets his text from his provider as intended (Bell for example). Then he also gets a 2nd text from Rogers saying "you have a text but you are not subscribed to our text message service."
This is confusing to the recipient and looks unprofessional. There's no way to get Rogers to change their SMS gateway's behavior. I need to use a high level SMS gateway provider who will deliver the message just to the one right provider. Something like CDYNE. But they charge money.
So I remembered that Gmail and Google Voice have high level SMS gateway ability - both will send out free SMS text messages. I hope they provide an API you can access via VB6.
Any ideas?