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Why is T-Mobile mail-to-SMS gateway sporadically blocking GMail?
I use the mail-to-SMS gateway to text me at different times of the day. For example, to alert me to do something on my to-do list, or to tell me if some long-running program on my PC, such as a back...
Philammon wrote:I've been having the same problem here. I have our security cameras user the gateway to text images from the motion detection feature of BlueIris. Since about 4 days ago these texts have been sporadically rejected, but some get through after Gmail retires. If it is a new spam filter it could be due to the pattern, so it may be worth trying to mix up the content.
It's not the pattern. Same content, on different days or times, might get through, or might blocked, it's all pretty arbitrary.
GMail keeps re-sending a messages that get rejected (I think for up to 4 days). So I will sometimes get a text on time, but most other times a text will show up hours later, or a day later, 2 days later. Or never.
My guess is that the Amazon service (Cloudfront) T-Mobile is using to control spam is poorly configured, uses multiple servers, and some of those servers block things for no real reason, while others let the messages through,
It’s basically a crap shoot, and nobody at T-Mobile cares about this.
