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Every command I send to thee server comes with a reply 200 for successful / 400 for unsuccessful . I can send a generic INFO command as well that replies the server version for example.

Also I would like to mention that, because the client/server usecase is for Broadcasting, the solution has to ...

Okay, with the ping command I can check if the server is reachable inside the network that the client is connected to. But I want to know when my client is disconnected, not just if the server is reachable, as this way i dont know if my client is connected or disconnected.


Can you write a ...

What OS is the server running, and also what OS will your client be running on?

There are two routes I know of that you could go:

XMPP to SMS Bridge
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There is a company that has an XMPP to SMS bridge for a very reasonable fee (a few dollars/month). They give you a phone number or you can import a number. I was able to import my old Google Voice number ...

I just had some work-situations change and needed a laptop so I could be in an office or go home to work. By pure chance a friend was selling a Lenovo Thinkpad T540p for cheap. I did not care for it at first glance, but the price was right ($200)

After having it for a couple of weeks I love it. The ...

Thanks for the description. I am always curious to hear from people who are immigrating from FM.

As a side note: you might be interested in a feature Richard Gaskin showed me a while back. Basically, if you have a webserver (I think LiveCloud has webhosting built in) with Livecode you can create a ...

Out of curiosity: did you use Filemaker Server with your app, or did you just keep it all together on the same computer? Did you get into separating data from the user-interface? I remember Filemaker did have that ability and it made designing databases much easier.

Are you moving to a MySQL ...

I have a few raspberry pi zero's out in the field (some of them literally out in a field) that work in conjunction with Livecode Server. Rather than running livecode on the pi, I use bash or python scripts on the pi to send data to a livecode server (a VPS from Linode or digitalOcean), and use the ...

Another option maybe to use an email service that has a REST API.

Couple of examples (I haven't tried these myself):
https://rapidapi.com/fapi/api/fapimail/details
https://www.mailjet.com/email-api/

GMail also has an API
https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/guides/sending

For the OP's use ...

Do you have a server that you are sending the messages to, that then get emailed?

If so, does your server have livecode-server installed along with Apache? Or perhaps just php?

you could just send a POST with the message to your server and from there you can email it or log it in a database. From ...

What is it you are trying to do? There is (almost) always several ways to do a thing.

You could just run a simple bash command on a cron every night to clean up files older than a day. Something like:

Glad you got it working.
I can run a query from my computer and see your MX record now:

..I just want to re-iterate that changing nameservers can take up to a few days to completely propagate across the internet. If you make that change, things might start working in a few hours...and then stop working..then start working again.

You just have to wait the full 3 days before you can ...