SMS via Email

Class: argus.notificationprofile.media.sms_as_email.SMSNotification

This plugin is not enabled by default.

This plugin is for systems where SMSes are sent via a magical email-address (legacy-system support). For that reason it depends on the same Django email server settings as the included EmailNotification-plugin, and in addition the Argus-specific SMS_GATEWAY_ADDRESS-setting, which is the magical email-address to send the SMSes to.

The phone number is suffixed to the local-part of the email-address.

Given an SMS_GATEWAY_ADDRESS of the following form:

SMS_GATEWAY_ADDRESS = "sms@example.com"

and a phone number of the following form:

+345656787643

then the resulting address is:

sms+345656787643@example.com

The settings-field for an SMS-destination contains only a phone_number, which is a string that includes the international calling code, see for instance Wikipedia: List of mobile telephone prefixes by country.

The library used to validate that the number is a real phone number is based on Google’s libphonenumber, so you cannot test with an arbitrary string of numbers.

This plugin is a better example to copy for your own plugins than the included email-plugin since it doesn’t have the Django-specific User-magic.