Match the real Anveo SMS tab, and document provider-continuity steps
The SMS tab has one control — a "Forward to URL" checkbox and field, with SAVE/RETURN buttons where RETURN discards. The instructions described a destination dropdown that isn't there. Also flags that the generated URLs are long (~90 chars relay, ~150+ direct) and worth re-opening the tab to confirm they saved whole. Adds a provider-risk section: the realistic way to lose the number is account action or a lapsed balance rather than the company folding, so keep the balance small, save a recent invoice offline (porting out needs a signed LOA plus the latest bill, which you can't download once an account is closed), and note that Anveo states it does not block port-outs. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NAddJGE1G6eGaPzmScG5Vh
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but the URL you paste into Anveo carries your ntfy token, and the `&` case
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loses the tail of the message.
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Then in the Anveo portal: **Phone Numbers → the DID → SMS tab**, set the
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destination to **URL**, and paste the string the installer printed. Keep the
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`$[message]$` placeholder **last** — that's what makes the unescaped-`&` case
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recoverable.
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Then in the Anveo portal: **Phone Numbers → the DID → SMS tab**. The tab has
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exactly one control — a **Forward to URL** checkbox and a text field. Tick the
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box, paste the string the installer printed into the field, and press **SAVE**
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(not RETURN, which discards). Keep the `$[message]$` placeholder **last** in
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that URL — that's what makes the unescaped-`&` case recoverable.
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The field has no visible length limit, but the generated URLs are long
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(~90 characters in relay mode, ~150+ in direct mode, since that one carries
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the ntfy auth parameter). After saving, reopen the tab and confirm the whole
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string came back intact rather than truncated — if it didn't, relay mode is
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the shorter of the two.
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Send a text to the number from another phone; the notification should arrive
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within seconds. `journalctl -u sms-inbound -f` shows sender, recipient and
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@@ -286,6 +293,33 @@ iOS lets nothing write to Messages at all. Codes arrive as ntfy push
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notifications instead — which, for a passcode you're about to read and type,
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is the more useful place anyway.
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## Provider risk and keeping the number
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Anveo is small — founder-run since ~2006, bootstrapped (no outside funding),
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around 8 people. The clunky portal reads as a niche business that hasn't
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needed to rewrite its UI rather than one in trouble: they shipped a Hosted
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STIR/SHAKEN signing service for the June 20 2025 reseller deadline, added
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carrier-sourced mobile DIDs, and support answers technical tickets within a
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day or two.
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The realistic way to lose a number here isn't insolvency, it's **account
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action or a lapsed balance**. There are long-standing reports of accounts
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closed without warning, sometimes with prepaid credit still on them, and the
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AUP penalises high volumes of very short or non-conversational calls. Three
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cheap precautions:
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- **Keep the balance small** — enough for a few months, no more. Auto-recharge
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stays off anyway for the toll-fraud reasons above, which conveniently caps
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what's at risk.
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- **Save a copy of a recent invoice now**, offline. Porting a number out
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requires a signed LOA *plus* the latest bill from the losing carrier — and
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if the account is already closed you can't download one.
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- **Know the exit exists.** Anveo Direct states it does not block or restrict
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port-outs (a provider refusing to release numbers is the real warning sign).
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The process is at `anveo.com/lnp.asp`: signed authorisation form plus that
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invoice, 3–6 weeks, non-refundable porting fee. Service must stay active on
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the number until the port completes.
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## Bugs hit and fixed along the way (informational — already fixed)
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These were all real, confirmed-live bugs in earlier versions of this
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