[ale] Still dealing with Nextel

[Robert L. Harris]

I can hit www.nextel.com and http://messaging.nextel.com all day from
home so I don't think it's routing inside my ISP.

I've been working on a script.  When I run it by hand it works great.
When I use an email alias pipe in exim it starts complaining about perl
modules missing variables (which are defined if I print them).  Wget
gives other oddities as well.

------ pipe to |/usr/local/bin/Pager.pl 6787586413                                                  
       generated by robert-pager at rdlg.net ------                                                    
                                                                                                    
--11:26:22--                                                                                        
http://messaging.nextel.com/cgi/iPageExt.dll?cmd=sendPage&twoWayPTNs=6787586413&from=Rob&subject=aga
in&message=Message                                                                                  
           =>                                                                                       
`iPageExt.dll?cmd=sendPage&twoWayPTNs=6787586413&from=Rob&subject=again&message=Message'            
Resolving http... failed: Name or service not known.                                                

(wget output)

My script is doing this:
my ($Command)="/usr/bin/wget http://messaging.nextel.com/cgi/iPageExt.dll?cmd=sendPage\\&twoWayPTNs=$Phone\\&from=$From\\&subject=$Subject\\&message=Message";
print OUTPUT "\$Command :$Command:\n";
open(INPUT, "$Command |");
while(<INPUT>) {
  chomp;
  $tmp.=$_;
}

print OUTPUT "\$tmp :$tmp:\n";

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in my output file $tmp is empty, and the page isn't sent.  The exim log
show the command being run but no error.



Thus spake James P. Kinney III (jkinney at localnetsolutions.com):

> There may be a routing problem coming from your home connection.  That
> is an issue with your ISP. 
> 
> _OR_
> 
> Nextel has had problem s with spammers on the same line/domain that your
> ISP sells, so they have blocked it off.
> 
> If they are like most places, they also have a web page where you can
> send messages from. Grab that with wget and script in your send with the
> offline page.
> 
> On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 09:50, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> >   Ok, I'm still arguing with nextel about emailing to their messaging
> > servers.  Talking to their techs is along the lines of explaining
> > nuclear fusion t a chicken I've surmised.
> > 
> >   I'm trying to narrow down the argument here as much as possible.
> > 
> > The scenario:
> >   From my office I can email to <phone>@messaging.nextel.com and get a
> >     page within 2 mins
> >   From my home (*.rdlg.net) any email to messaging.nextel.com times out
> >     and is never deleivered.
> > 
> >   I've been told to email to paging.nextel.com instead, but see'ing as
> >     it has the same MX servers there's not much difference.  Telnet to
> >     port 25 on the MX connects from my office but not from home.  (At this
> >     point I'm told they don't use telnet to send messages, they use an email
> >     to SMS gateway...  BAWK!!!!)
> > 
> >   I've tested with my firewall completely dropped, no change in
> >     behavior.
> > 
> > Anyone have any thoughts on this?  It's become one of those fights I
> > just can't give up as it's now a matter of principle...
> > 
> > Robert
> > 
> > 
> > :wq!
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Robert L. Harris                     | PGP Key ID: FC96D405
> >                                
> > DISCLAIMER:
> >       These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.
> > FYI:
> >  perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
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> 
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> 





:wq!
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Robert L. Harris                     | PGP Key ID: FC96D405
                               
DISCLAIMER:
      These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.
FYI:
 perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'


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