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I need to use %SMSNUMBER placeholder in email notifications but it is not replaced with data from user's account and it stays as string %smsnumber in an email's subject. Is this a feature or bug?

notifications placeholders sms

Created on Dec 1, 2015 10:29:09 AM



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%SMSNUMBER can only be used in pager/sms notifications. Here's a list with items that can be used among all notification options

Created on Dec 1, 2015 11:45:54 AM by Stephan Linke [Paessler Support]



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%SMSNUMBER can only be used in pager/sms notifications. Here's a list with items that can be used among all notification options.

Created on Dec 1, 2015 11:45:54 AM by Stephan Linke [Paessler Support]

Last change on Dec 1, 2015 11:45:59 AM by Stephan Linke [Paessler Support]



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Having placeholders and notifications already working together wouldn't be a good idea with simple implementation to have all these placeholders working in all notification types? With this particular example I would have opportunity to send SMSes via my email-to-SMS gateway with mobile number taken from users profile and placed in a email's subject.

Created on Dec 1, 2015 9:35:41 PM



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Couldn't you just add the corresponding mail address (that includes the number) as a notification contact? Simple as that :)

Created on Dec 2, 2015 2:55:38 PM by Stephan Linke [Paessler Support]

Last change on Dec 2, 2015 2:55:47 PM by Stephan Linke [Paessler Support]



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Thanks for a hint but my SMS gateway implementation pools for incoming emails on specific functional mailbox and sends SMS to a predefined set of mobile numbers. alliteratively mobile number can be extracted from email's subject line. %smsnumber placeholder in a subject line is what I am looking for.

Created on Dec 2, 2015 9:59:17 PM



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Hm, not anytime soon I'm afraid :/

Created on Dec 3, 2015 8:28:17 AM by Stephan Linke [Paessler Support]




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