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How to email MMS to phone?
I'm new to T-Mobile, but I've Googled this question and read to use my phone number with @tmomail.net as the address to send to my phone. Every time I try, it comes back with the 550 error. W...
I use Gmail. I was previously with AT&T, and created a contact called "My
Cell phone" with the email phonenumber@txt.att.net. This worked for years.
When I switched to T-Mobile, I changed the contact email to
phonenumber@tmomail.net.
This is where the problem started. Even though I changed the address, it
would not work. I've since deleted the contact and used
phonenumber@tmomail.net, and it works now. Thanks for the update.
Craig
FIGURED OUT HOW TO WORKAROUND - I was able to email from my account@gmaildotcom, to my T-Mobile # 1234567890@tmomail.net, one time. The 2nd time I received the same errors everyone else is getting '550 5.1.1 server temporarily unavailable AUP#MXRT'. 3rd time same error. I was using typeapp Android email. Then I tried Gmail and Outlook - same error. it worked once so I kept trying, sending text, jpg and PDF - same error.
Then I thought about the really good information already posted here - that T-Mobile was rejecting due to spam concern. So I tried something else.
I emailed from a different email account of mine 2ndaccount@gmaildotcom to my 1234567890@tmomail.net phone number - IT WORKED! So I tried to send a 2nd time - same error as above. 3rd and 4th times errored out again, regardless if text or jpg or PDF.
So I tried to send from a 3rd different account 3rdaccount@gmaildotcom to my @tmomail.net it worked. But only the 1st time, each subsequent attempt failed. So I tried a 4thaccount@gmcom and 5thaccount@gmcom - each time I used a new email account that I had never used before to email my phone, it worked only the 1st time. And I could send text and jpg and PDF and it works the 1st time, and only the 1st time.
So it seems the 2nd and subsequent attempts are marked as spam and rejected. I don't know how long the 'lock' on the email account lasts - I'll try these same accounts that worked only 1 time, again in a day or 2 and see if it 'resets' the spam error associated with 2nd and subsequent attempts - I hope so, I only have about 35 emails.
I would be interested if anyone else can replicate this process
