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drbob2112's avatar
drbob2112
Newbie Caller
Hace 2 años

Email to text not working via gmail.

Have a PLC that sends alerts/alarms out via email. There are 10 people on the group message, 8 of whom are on other carriers - all received the email/text, but not to tmomail.net. Only two of us are on Tmobile and we are the only two who didn't receive the alert:

There was a temporary problem delivering your message to **********@tmomail.net. Gmail will retry for 25 more hours. You'll be notified if the delivery fails permanently.
The response from the remote server was:

452 4.1.0 <**********@gmail.com> server temporarily unavailable AUP#MXRT

  • So we just got the two texts today  - 72 hours later - which is exactly what you want when sending out emergency alerts….

    Any idea what’s going on?

  • I’ve searched TMO’s community and there are Dozens of people that cannot send an a gmail
    to <phone #>@tmomail.net

    This has affected me ON/OFF for all of 2023 so far and it sucks.

     

  • HeavenM's avatar
    HeavenM
    Administrador de la comunidad

    Hey there. The email to text service can be pretty convenient for many situations. It is not designed for any automated messages at all, though. Nuestra Consumer versus Non-Consumer Text Messaging T-Mobile Support page has a little more detail on that. 

    El gateway de email a mensaje de texto es un sistema legado que posiblemente sea descontinuado en el futuro. Está diseñada únicamente para tráfico de consumidor de bajo volumen y no puede manejar una gran cantidad de mensajes. For that reason, all non-consumer messaging is prohibited on the e-mail to text gateway, and even high volume consumer messaging may be blocked as it can impact the system's ability to handle messages for all customers. Si necesitas enviar mensajes que no son al consumidor o gran volumen de mensajes al consumidor, usa un agregador ya que ese tipo de conexiones pueden manejar ese tipo de volumen de mensajes.

    T-Mobile has made some recent updates to many spam filters to continue protecting our customers from unwanted messages which included more effective filters on the email to text gateway. If your PLC is sending out emails, then you should be sending those emails to an actual email address instead of the email to text method. If it is possible to update your PLC to send out SMS through a short code or 10DLC number, then those should be delivered to the phones with no problem. 

  • @HeavenM 

    If you decommission email to text I certainly hope TMO implements a replacement that is more “robust” !

    Just dropping the service all together would not be a good move for Customers.

  • Bmoon's avatar
    Bmoon
    Network Novice


    @HeavenM 

    T-Mobiles stance on this is ridiculously outdated. Consumer versus Non-Consumer text, is ignoring that fact that many consumers like with tech meaning devices, vehicles and homes, security systems that want to communicate with its owner who is a consumer! If I have 4 cameras on my home, 10 sensors, 3 appliances, 2 vehicles, 2 pet tags, 4 children you are tracking and T-Mobiles response is to say your a Non-Consumer? It is time to update the model it is 2024!