[qbunnie]

Okay
Well, I set up a new GMail account and set a few options. Unfortunately for reasons unknown to me, they aren't working.
First I set it up so that the From field would show #@pm.sprint.com
However, when sending a message to pm.sprint.com via phone, the reply still goes to GMail (IMAP seems to bypass the previous option)
When sending a test message to another email account, reply is gmail on behalf of pm, and reply link is sprint pm. follow?
When sending a test email from GMail (on PC) to Sprint PM directly (on behalf of sprint), the email doesn't even show up.
Forwarding also does not work via GMail.

Here is a quick question:
If you have a normal cell with MMS, could you send sprint PM's to yourself?
When I use the sprint picture mail web UI, it works fine.

Update: It appears the Sprint blocks an email when the From address is the same as your sprint PM account. Unless, of course, you are actually sending it through Sprint.
This means that forwarding at least works, as long as you have your email account set NOT to be FROM your sprint PM account. Therefore if somebody replies to your GMail account, it does show up as a text message.
2 Problems: If somebody replies through Sprint's UI like most phones do for sprint, it will try to display the whole message as a PM, meaning all the sprint graphics and such are included as hyperlinks on a single PM rather than an attachment on an email. Test it out and you'll see what I mean. This will be especially cumbersome for any Sprint WM users like us to PM eachother.
Second problem is that you can't reply to yourself. Auto-Forwarding messages will carry the From: for their original senders, thus if you try to reply to your own PM sent via GMail, it will think that SprintPM is emailing SprintPM again, and block it.
Again, I'm using Gmail for all this, so maybe other email system works differently. If it does, lemme know.