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Reply to SMS in VBS

My question for you today is "How to reply to an email using windows vbscript." (Gmail) That may not be the best explanation...

WAIT, I already know how to SEND an email (to my phone through [email protected]) using VBScript, but I want to reply to a text. I have a system that alerts my phone when an action is performed on my computer (through VBScript) but this keeps happening. It's as if I receive the message from a different address each and every time.

So, is there any way to make it so I receive the text from the same recipient each time? Currently, the "phone" number of the sender started at 1410200500 and counts up every time I send it using this vbs code.

Const schema   = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/"
Const cdoBasic = 1
Const cdoSendUsingPort = 2

Set oMsg      = CreateObject("CDO.Message")
oMsg.From     = "[email protected]"
oMsg.To       = "[email protected]"
oMsg.TextBody = "ALERTMSG"

Set oConf = oMsg.Configuration
oConf.Fields(schema & "smtpserver")       = "smtp.gmail.com"
oConf.Fields(schema & "smtpserverport")   = 465
oConf.Fields(schema & "sendusing")        = cdoSendUsingPort
oConf.Fields(schema & "smtpauthenticate") = cdoBasic
oConf.Fields(schema & "smtpusessl")       = True
oConf.Fields(schema & "sendusername")     = "[email protected]"
oConf.Fields(schema & "sendpassword")     = "supersecretpassword"
oConf.Fields.Update

oMsg.Send

Everything works except for the issue of the sender being different each time.

Please help

Edit: I have found that this is unavoidable, thanks to everyone that helped!

Solution

  • There is nothing wrong with your VBScript or the CDO configuration.

    The value assigned to the Sender by the SMS Middleware that takes the e-mail and forwards it to an SMS service is outside your control. The only option you have is to contact your SMS provider but I wouldn't suggest they will change how this works.

    In fact in this Video at 0:40 it states;

    "the number that appears on your recipients phone or device may not be your actual phone number, but they will see the name, subject and e-mail address you used to send the text message."

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