Now SMS/MMS Gateway v5.0 Release Notes

Additional information, and answers to commonly asked questions, can be found at our Now SMS/MMS Gateway Support discussion forum.

At present, the following other resources are available:

Overview of Significant New Features

The primary new features of the v5.0 release:

1.) Support for routing MMS messages via external MMSC connections. Similar to how routing prefixes can be defined for routing SMS messages to different SMSCs, this version supports routing MMS messages to different MMSC connections with support for:

Direct MMS Delivery (NowSMS is the MMSC, as in previous versions)
MM7 (XML/SOAP based API over HTTP POST)
MM4 (SMTP based API)
MM1 (HTTP POST of binary MMS content, the protocol used for phone-to-phone MMS)
EAIF (Nokia variation of MM1 defined as an interface into their MMSC product)
Convert MMS message to Multimedia WAP Push

2.) When receiving MMS messages, NowSMS can now automatically initiate a GPRS connection and receive the MMS message content from the operator MMSC over GPRS and WAP. (This is necessary to enable the receipt of MMS messages from many operator systems.)

3.) Outbound MMS messages can be routed via an MM1 connection to an operator MMSC over GPRS and WAP, allowing messages to be submitted into an operator MMSC over a GPRS/GSM modem.

4.) When receiving MMS messages, in addition to the file-based interface, NowSMS can be configured to automatically parse the MMS content and forward it to an e-mail address, or to an MM7 client.

5.) VASP (Value Added Service Provider) accounts can be enabled on the gateway which allow other applications to submit messages to the gateway using MM7, MM4, MM1 or EAIF.

6.) Support for sending SyncML Settings per the Nokia/Ericsson OTA Specification.

7.) Support for sending OMA WAP Provisioning Content, as defined by the OMA WAP Provisioning Content Specification.