asterisk users - Mar 2007 - SMS ON ASTERISK

We installed na Asterisk System whith 400 Softphone users (Eyebeam 1.5 from
Counterpath).

As far as we know, Asterisk don't support yet IM (Instante Message)
feature,instead Eyebeam have this feature.

Is that true? Is there any new version from Asterisk that supports IM?
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Am Montag, den 05.03.2007, 09:01 -0300 schrieb Assis,
Eduardo:
> We installed na Asterisk System whith 400 Softphone users (Eyebeam 1.5
> from Counterpath).
> 
> As far as we know, Asterisk don't support yet IM (Instante Message)
> feature,instead Eyebeam have this feature.
I cross-read their handbook and did not find anything about the
Instant-Messaging feature besides its existence and how to send a
message. I _guess_ it works with SIP messages (like SendText and
ReceiveText Asterisk commands, perhaps?), but it surely is NOT related
to the "SMS" application of Asterisk.

app_sms supports landline SMS over analogue and ISDN lines, meaning the
short message is encoded in a few-second 1200bps modem conversation. Of
course there are more appropriate ways to send messages if you are on an
IP network :-)

If I were you, I would try to fiddle with the SendText and ReceiveText
stuff (the latter might be available in AGI only - there are docs on the
voip-info.org website, and google is our friend).

SendText might only work while in a call, like
exten => 1,1,Answer
exten => 1,2,SendText(Lorem ipsum dolor)
(send text to the caller's display)

I cannot guarantee that it will work at all, there might still be other
means off messaging that I just do not have an idea of.

Did you test at all wether messages go anywhere, or what happens if you
send a message?

Best regards,
Anselm