nueMMS - beta test sprint workaround

[hwnstyle21]

Originally Posted by wldthng842

I emailed pktpix and have heard nothing back. Virtually everyone I know is on Sprint so no one really to try it with.

Any update to this? I tried nuemms w/ the standard pktpix and changing it to the correct carrier and neither pictures went through

[qbunnie]

Originally Posted by hwnstyle21

Any update to this? I tried nuemms w/ the standard pktpix and changing it to the correct carrier and neither pictures went through

I used nueMMS via regular carrier and it worked fine for me today...

[Mr_Beefy84532]

I was wondering if there is any way for my phone # to appear instead of it saying "Unknown sender" when people receive it. Thanks.

[belvedere]

turns out i wasn't being patient enough when sending pictures with my gmail acct. i was having trouble getting the email with the picture to send from my phone. outlook would say Sending... for a while and then i'd just give up. i put my phone down for a while and the picture eventually went through. now to see if the picture made it to the person i sent it to (using #@pktpix.com).

[qbunnie]

Originally Posted by Mr_Beefy84532

I was wondering if there is any way for my phone # to appear instead of it saying "Unknown sender" when people receive it. Thanks.

Unlikely. If you look a few posts above there is a good discussion of trying to trick other phones into thinking the email address that sends out the picture message is your #@pm.sprint.com. Unfortunately it doesn't work.
I'm not sure if everybody will see unknown sender, however. Your email address, or a name associated with the email address may show up instead.

[cmylxgo]

I've finally got around to doing some more testing. One of my suspicions was that the sprint/ATT/Verizon ect...mail servers were blocking the messages with their SPAM filters. Doing a lookup of the recipient host and if they do not match then block msg. This is an inbound filter. But this is not the case.

I configured my PC to send a message to #@pm.sprint.com with the Reply-to address as my #@pm.sprint.com and I was able to successfully send MMS. I also tried setting my Reply-to address as my #@messaging.sprintpcs.com and was able to send and receive txt msgs.

So in a nutshell...

You cannot send an email from your phone to any account with the Reply-to address with any part of sprint in the address or it will be blocked/dropped/rejected before it leaves the Sprint network.

My next test...when I get some more free time...is to try and configure SendMail, and SMTP server, to replace my reply-to address with my sprint pm address once it leaves the sprint network. This should resolve the issue...but its a lot of work and will only work for users I can configure. I think I might just live with MMS responses coming to my Exchange E-Mail account.

[savior02]

w/e sprint mms sucks i have to always send the pic to myself than when i get it i have to open up the unknown sender link than i click on forward than open contacts click edit copy the number than go back to the browser click paste tjan send wow what a mission there has to be a better way and nuemms isnt ot doesnt work with metro pcs!

[qbunnie]

Originally Posted by cmylxgo

I've finally got around to doing some more testing. One of my suspicions was that the sprint/ATT/Verizon ect...mail servers were blocking the messages with their SPAM filters. Doing a lookup of the recipient host and if they do not match then block msg. This is an inbound filter. But this is not the case.

I configured my PC to send a message to #@pm.sprint.com with the Reply-to address as my #@pm.sprint.com and I was able to successfully send MMS. I also tried setting my Reply-to address as my #@messaging.sprintpcs.com and was able to send and receive txt msgs.

So in a nutshell...

You cannot send an email from your phone to any account with the Reply-to address with any part of sprint in the address or it will be blocked/dropped/rejected before it leaves the Sprint network.

My next test...when I get some more free time...is to try and configure SendMail, and SMTP server, to replace my reply-to address with my sprint pm address once it leaves the sprint network. This should resolve the issue...but its a lot of work and will only work for users I can configure. I think I might just live with MMS responses coming to my Exchange E-Mail account.

I don't understand how that is possible. When sending an email out, it is never in the Sprint network. The only thing a reply-to should do is add a line or 2 in the header portion of the email. An outgoing email on a phone does have a different header than a PC one, so perhaps the incoming SPAM filters simply do not accept a reply-to line within the mobile header protocol.
Another reason I say this is that if a vzw user texts my email address which automatically forwards it to my sprint messaging address, it gets blocked. I can give you some more detailed failure codes, PM me if you want them. This could be because he has a mobile protocol and when emails are forwarded, more or less they are just emailed again with the original reply-to address.
SendMail should still be able to fix that at least on one end, as it changes the header when redirecting the mail. Let us know how that goes.
Unforunately although I know what SendMail does in principle, I've never used it, and it would be a serious pain in the a$$ to learn how.
One thing I don't know about is if the forwarding is set up on a PC (versus the email account itself) if it modifies the headers at all. I doubt it, so I don't think will fix it. Keep us posted.

[savior02]

we need a simple mms solution

[jamesus]

Originally Posted by savior02

we need a simple mms solution

Like Sprint enabling it?