How to email MMS to phone?

fireguy_6364 wrote:

then that would be an issue with Hotmail and not so much TMO. if it were every email out there then sure..TMO issue..but seeing as how one works fine but the other doesnt points at whom the issue lies with.

 

carriers dont adjust to apps..the apps get adjusted to the carrier.

There is *definitely* an issue with T-Mobile where it comes to ‘tmomail.net’, @fireguy_6364 . I have been using this service to receive “on call” alerts for work issues for years. A couple of years ago, the reliability of tmomail.net messages started decreasing. At the time, I had a discussion with a VP of T-Mobile who works with the ‘tmomail.net’ product: it seems they’ve been having massive issues with SPAM, so they’ve tightened their SPAM rules more and more over the years.

I have periodically changed my alert message format, as well as the email provider with which I send the messages. Upon analyzing the failure messages I receive (in my junk mailbox hours after the message was sent), I usually can fix the issue (ie, ensure the message headers contain minimal SPAM signals). However, in the last few months, the messages have been failing with “server temporarily unavailable AUP#MSRT”.

AUP stands for Acceptable Use Policy, which suggests my messages are once again being marked as SPAM by T-Mobile’s services. Further, the failure messages are coming from ‘tmo-west.mx.a.cloudfilter.net’ - which is the company T-Mobile uses for SPAM filtering.

I use this service for a week every month, during which I am on call for work support. Work emails the messages to my mail account - usually a few messages per week from work, and one test message per day from myself to ensure my tmomail is working - so it’s not a ton of messages. I use an app I wrote to send the ‘tmomail.net’ message from my current email account such that it is not “forwarded” (which is a SPAM signal) - it is a brand new message sent specifically from that account. AND, it’s single messages, coming from my own mail account to my own phone - I’m not doing “business” or “mass marketing email” or anything of that genre. Yet, still...

As for mail services, I went from a couple of generic email services, to gmail, then to iCloud when gmail started getting blocked. All of them worked for a short time, after which ‘cloudfilter’ started blocking the messages. As I noted, the messages I get from iCloud account now say either the above, or occasionally that cloudfilter refused to talk with iCloud.com. And the failures are ALWAYS from ‘tmo’-something at cloudfilter - so it’s definitely T-Mobile causing the problem.

then that would be an issue with Hotmail and not so much TMO. if it were every email out there then sure..TMO issue..but seeing as how one works fine but the other doesnt points at whom the issue lies with.

carriers dont adjust to apps..the apps get adjusted to the carrier.

Same as kglad above, I could email to tmobile text using gmail, but not hotmail.

i found i could email to tmobile text using gmail, but not hotmail.

I’m having the same issues I used to receive message alerts from Tradingview but they just stopped like 2 weeks ago.  

My messages sent to my [phonenumber]@tmomail.net come through, but only as a ‘new message available’, then it prompts me to  “tap to download”.   

Not sure where it goes when it downloads but it never shows in my messaging app.

 

I, too, am having trouble.  tmomail.net tells my mail server that my message was accepted allowed and sent.  I get no text message.  If I do the same from gmail, it works.  

That could be so. At one time Verizon was CDMA and Tmobile has always been GSM. They weren’t compatible or  you did not use to be able to BYOD from Verizon to Tmobile. There may be latent code that needs to change.

@sweetpeach Thanks for the quick reply.  The file is about 400K.  One thing that I did not mention is that I wasn’t using an email client nor the web app to send the email. I was using a program which I developed for monitoring purposes.  No problem with Verizon, but not working on T Mobile.  Verizon uses 2 separate domains for SMS and MMS while T mobile uses just 1 domain for both.  Perhaps I’m just missing a setting.

How big was the picture? I tried with a 470K pic + a subject + words in the text & email and it worked perfectly. However, I did not use a “+” or a 1.

Perhaps, you have a setting that does not allow texts to contacts without phone numbers? Or a setting in contacts to not list contacts without phone numbers?

Also check your MMS settings; what do you have the size limit set to? I have mine set to warn me if it’s too big.