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Possible for website to receive and process SMS messages w/images?
A client wishes to give mobile users the ability to send an SMS message with an image attached to it, to their website and have the image be added to a slideshow on the website (after admin approves it).
Is this even possible? Can SMS be sent to a website and can the website/webpage be coded to receive an SMS message and process it (extract the image attachment, etc)?
Sorry for such a generic question but I am an absolute newbie when it comes to SMS. (experienced web dev however :)
If this is even possible, all I would need is to be pointed in the right direction.
Or, if there is some alternative architecture for getting SMS messages with images up to a website, would love to hear how.
Thanks experts!
Is this even possible? Can SMS be sent to a website and can the website/webpage be coded to receive an SMS message and process it (extract the image attachment, etc)?
Sorry for such a generic question but I am an absolute newbie when it comes to SMS. (experienced web dev however :)
If this is even possible, all I would need is to be pointed in the right direction.
Or, if there is some alternative architecture for getting SMS messages with images up to a website, would love to hear how.
Thanks experts!
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Thanks I agree but could you point me to an example of a website that accepts an unsolicited email (not from a web form) and extracts the image? Would it just be a matter of a bacground task connecting via smtp to a mail account via smtp and fetching the emails and extracting the images from them?