Needed to determine this, but we could not find the info. Hopefully this is clear enough.

Is there a limit, for the maximum number of characters supported ?

Would it split the SMS that you send via eMail into various messages after reaching a certain amount of characters or is that dependant on the mobile that is receiving the message ?

The default message size is 160 character.

Maximum message length can be controlled by the 'Concat. Msgs. Max.' settings. This setting can be access on the Transport tab of the ActiveSMS Console. Click the 'Configure...' for your configure transport.

Here are some example settings:

1 160 characters max
2 306 characters max
3 459 characters max
4 612 characters max

We're just experimenting with sending messages longer than 160 characters, and they are getting cropped to 160.

Just found this post, and checked the setting in our software and it was already set to 3, so should handle 459 characters, but whenever we send one it always gets cropped to 160.

Is there anything else that needs to be done to get this setting to work?

Cheers,
Mike

Hi Mike,

This setting should take effect immediately.

How are you sumitting message to ActiveSMS? (Email to SMS, COM/ActiveX API/.Net API)

Hi,

I'm using the ActiveSMSClientDotNet.dll in Visual Studio 2003

m_ActiveSMS.ActiveHandset = IntelliSoftware.Handsets.hsHandset1
' send the message, timout of 15 seconds
intRetVal = m_ActiveSMS.SendMsg(strPhone, strMsg, 15000)

Edit:
Just downloaded the ActiveSMS DotNet SDK from the website, and notice that the .dll I'm using appears to be very old.
I have:
ActiveSMSClientDotNet.dll 13/03/2003 size 388KB

Download:
ActiveSMSClientDotNet.dll 21/12/2006 size 468KB

Could this be the problem?

This should not be a problem.

Please try sending a message with ActiveSMS Test that is longer then 160 characters.