Is it possible to get info of outgoing sms and delete it before sent?

[lilyaaa]

Dear ALL,

I am doing a project and I have to get the info of outgoing SMS message details and delete it before sent.
I've found many post about this topic and it seems the details of the SMS can be get but cannot delete it before sent.
Can it be done?
ALso, how can it be done?

Thank you very much!

Regards,
Lily

[kiran10182]

Dear ALL,

I am doing a project and I have to get the info of outgoing SMS message details and delete it before sent.
I've found many post about this topic and it seems the details of the SMS can be get but cannot delete it before sent.
Can it be done?
ALso, how can it be done?

Thank you very much!

Regards,
Lily

Yes, you can do that. See this Wiki article: SMS Operations

[symbianyucca]

Yep, but if you read the older posts, it is not really relaible to try catching the SMS messages from outbox, and then deletin them, at least I do remember from older possts that somwtimes some messages do get through before they were deleted..

[kiran10182]

Yep, but if you read the older posts, it is not really relaible to try catching the SMS messages from outbox, and then deletin them, at least I do remember from older possts that somwtimes some messages do get through before they were deleted..

Hmm, I misinterpreted the original question then. Yes, I could not find time to try out this particular scenario(to delete message before it reaches to Sent Item)

[lilyaaa]

Yep, but if you read the older posts, it is not really relaible to try catching the SMS messages from outbox, and then deletin them, at least I do remember from older possts that somwtimes some messages do get through before they were deleted..

SO, What can I do? Could anyone successfully do that?

[symbianyucca]

AFAIK, there ois no 100% relaible way on doing this.

[kiran10182]

SO, What can I do? Could anyone successfully do that?

Odota. I just did it. Add the following case in your HandleSessionEventL function.

case EMsvEntriesMoved:
{
	// Entry id is obtained from the session event arguments.
	TMsvId* entryId = STATIC_CAST( TMsvId*, aArg2 );

	// We are interested in messages that are moved to Sent Item Folder
	if (*entryId == KMsvGlobalOutBoxIndexEntryId)
	{
		TMsvSelectionOrdering sort;
		sort.SetSorting(EMsvSortByDateReverse);
		sort.SetShowInvisibleEntries(ETrue); // we want to handle also the invisible entries

		CMsvEntry* parentEntry = CMsvEntry::NewL(*iSession,
				KMsvGlobalOutBoxIndexEntryId, sort);
		CleanupStack::PushL(parentEntry);

		CMsvEntrySelection* entries = parentEntry->ChildrenL();
		CleanupStack::PushL(entries);

		for (TInt i = 0; i < entries->Count(); i++)
		{
			if (parentEntry->ChildDataL(entries->At(i)).iMtmData3
					!= KUidMsgTypeSMS.iUid)
			{
				TMsvEntry entry = parentEntry->ChildDataL(entries->At(i));
				const TDesC& descp = entry.iDescription; // iDescription will have only first 32 characters from the message
				TBufC<50> text(entry.iDetails);
				parentEntry->DeleteL(entries->At(i));
				break;
			}
		}
		CleanupStack::PopAndDestroy(entries);
		CleanupStack::PopAndDestroy(parentEntry);
	}
	break;
}

[lilyaaa]

Odota. I just did it. Add the following case in your HandleSessionEventL function.

Oh! You are so powerful, but I want to ask how can you test it since emulator cannot really send sms message?

[wizard_hu_]

Have you actually tried? Because it can. If you send a message, it will appear as a file in epoc32\winscw\c\smsout, and if you copy/move that file into smsin, the message will arrive to the Inbox.
If you successfully capture the SMS, the file will not appear there.

[kiran10182]

Oh! You are so powerful, but I want to ask how can you test it since emulator cannot really send sms message?

If you intend to send message from within your application, make sure to define message service center number on your emulator. You can find it in Messaging->Options->Settings .... You can define any number there. For example 1 will work.

[lilyaaa]

Yes, I can send the SMS message!

[kiran10182]

Yes, I can send the SMS message!

Then I believe you can emulate your original outbox issue, can't you? So now you can delete messages from outbox, right?

[lilyaaa]

Then I believe you can emulate your original outbox issue, can't you? So now you can delete messages from outbox, right?

Yes, follow you codes, I can delete the message from outbox and get the recipents and content of the message.
Thank you very much!

But I didn't try on real mobile phone, so I am not sure all the things can go right.

Since I want to add things at the end, so I use

TBufC<100> text2(entry.iDescription); to get the content.

You say entry.iDescription get the first 32 character, but I try that it seems can get first 60 characters.
but how can I get the whole message content?

[symbianyucca]

you would actually need to get the body of the message, see some codes from: http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/SMS_Operations

[kiran10182]

But I didn't try on real mobile phone, so I am not sure all the things can go right.

Yes, it works on device as well. I tested it both on Emulator and on real device. There is one glitch on real device though. After deleting message from Outbox, the control reaches to ScheduleL and in that function a call to InvokeAsyncFunctionL will leave. You can simply wrap it with TRAP_IGNORE to avoid any error popup on real device. Something like:

TRAP_IGNORE(iOperation = iSmsMtm->InvokeAsyncFunctionL( ESmsMtmCommandScheduleCopy,
                          *selection, dummyParams, iStatus ));

You say entry.iDescription get the first 32 character, but I try that it seems can get first 60 characters.
but how can I get the whole message content?

Yes, as Jukka mentioned, see the Wiki article and you would find some ways to get it.