Reading Text Messages
Not only can webbots send text messages through an email interface, but they can also receive replies to the text messages they send. When the recipient of the text message sends an SMS in reply to your webbot’s message, that message will be delivered to the email account in the Reply_to: parameter of the original message. Since you learned to program webbots that read email in Chapter 14, you can use this capability to react to conditions as they happen. For example, if your webbot detects an error condition, it could send a text message to an administrator that describes the situation: “Reply KILL to suspend webbot.” If the webbot receives this message as a reply email, it can simply suspend operations until the webbot ...
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