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FoxBox SMTP gateway utility, allows you to send email to SMS messages simulating a standard SMTP server running on your machine, with the ability to convert the email to SMS messages. This utility is really usefull in the case you have to convert a software sending just email to a fully SMS enabled application and you CANNOT use the integration methods described here: Email to SMS integrated gateway function This application is born from a foxbox user that ask for a special integration of his software in this scenario:
1- The customer application runs on a PC without internet connectivity
2- The application only allows to send email trought a SMTP server
3- The customer cannot setup any Email account and he would like to simply send email take the phone number from the sender and send out a SMS message using the body or the subject of the email. For example: email recipient:
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email body (in text format): LOREM IPSUM LOREM IPSUM LOREM IPSUM FoxBox Gate cover this case completely, just download unzip and run the application on the system; In the configure window you have to specify the IP of the foxbox, the username the password the SMTP port that the server has to use and if you want to use the body or the subject of the email.
After that, in your program, specify as SMTP localhost or the IP of the machine running the server and the port you provided before.
Sending an email to
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will automatically send out an SMS to the number XXXXXXXXXXX using or the body or the subject of the email.
 Obviously you can use it with EVERY standard SMTP client application as MS outlook®, Apple mail™, Mozilla Thunderbird and so on.
Optionally you can setup on your DNS a MX record that points to the IP of the machine running the gateway, for example create a CNAME of your domain: CNAME mobile.yourdomain.com yourdomain.com.
MX mobile.yourdomain.com this will cause email messages sent to
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be diverted to SMS messages. You can download it here, choose the right OS type:
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