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NOTE: The major phone carriers around the globe impose limits upon the frequency of SMS transmission. They do this to prevent SMS spam & to provide a consistent service. The carriers use equipment that has limitations; there’s no getting around this. When these limits are exceeded, the carrier will “filter” out the excess SMS traffic, and those messages will simply be discarded: lost. You’ll commonly see these filtering events occur in batches.
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Navigate to Twilio at: https://www.twilio.com/
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Create your Twilio account.
NOTE: The designed use case for SMS messaging within CAS is for Identity Verification and Opt-in Notifications (“2FA”). We encourage you to obey these strict limitations.
Crypto-related solicitations are forbidden, as is any other “high-risk” financial spam.
Twilio will reject you (or close your account) if you use their service for such messaging.
US/Canada guidelines: https://support.twilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/360045004974-Forbidden-Message-Categories-for-SMS-and-MMS-in-the-US-and-Canada
Provide a valid email & phone number, and the following options:
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Locate your keys:
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Both the “ACCOUNT SID” and “AUTH TOKEN” are required.
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Buy a phone number.
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In this example, the cost is only $1/month.
Make sure it is SMS & Voice capable (MMS, Fax not required).
Per Twilio: “Toll-free verification required for US messaging. US Toll-Free numbers will not be able to send messages until the verification has been approved.”
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Assemble the required parameters:
Using a colon “:” between all 3 parameters, place them in this specific order:
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Copy & paste the entire parameter string in one paste operation.
CAS fields doesn’t append previous entries.
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Navigate to CAS: Organization: SMS Provider
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Enter the parameters from the previous step:
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Save it.
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Return to the setting, and test it.
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You’ll be asked for a receiving phone number.
The number should be in international format, e.g.
+420296399328For trial accounts (only), the number must be pre-verified in your Twilio settings.
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If everything went as planned, you should see:
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Troubleshooting
From the BASH console, you can test your Twilio settings to ensure that:
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