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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
I basically only have a cell phone so my security system can send MMS messages with an image when it detects a person. It was totally reliable when I first got the phone but it has not been reliable for quite a while now.
I just sent a test message from the alarm system (it uses gmail) and it came through fine. But it wasn't working at all a couple of days ago. I'm having health problems, and haven't been able to stay on top of things, but am trying to get this resolved before I have surgery next week.
Bottom line, if T-Mobile can't get to the bottom of this issue soon, I'll be looking for another provider. My neighbor uses Cricket and has a similar security system and his messages have continued to work while mine were not.
Other threads when it first stopped working suggested it was caused by an FTC "anti-spam" rule and that T-Mobile and others simply purchased lame software to implement the rule which broke the utility of the gateways. If this is true, it shouldn't be rocket science to create a whitelist of Email addresses you want to get SMS/MMS messages from. It could be automated by allowing messages through that are not from known spammers, and informing customers that a reply to the SMS/MMS would add that sender to the whitelist. Let the "normal spam filter rules apply afterwards in the absence of a reply.
With reference to wharriso message above, I just sent a test message from my swbell.net Email which goes via yahoo and it got through. My security system zooms in on the "person" it detects and the attached images are generally less than 100 Kbytes. Most MMS providers seem to limit messages to about 1 Mbyte and generally a text without the MMS arrives telling you it was "too big".
