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Re: @tmomail Rejecting messages with internal error
Wait. Did you create the ticket with CloudMark yourself? I've done that. They don't respond to users. There's a separate ticketing system for their paid clients, I.e. T-Mobile and only they have access to that system. Their support people have to create the ticket for you.4Visto0likes0ComentariosRe: @tmomail Rejecting messages with internal error
nwerle wrote: still not working stupid tmobile workers It's not going to fix itself. You have to have them create a ticket with CloudMark to unblock the email address you're sending from. Or you can start using the script I wrote that works around the issue. I've posted it in other threads, but apparently not this one.6Visto1like0ComentariosRe: How to fix significant delays of messages sent using the email to SMS service?
James Britt wrote: I don't have a Mac to work around this, and that shouldn'teven have to be considered. T-Mobile has outsourced "spam" filtering to some 3rd-party and washed their hands of it. It's as if the service now doesn't even exist. I feel ya and completely agree. Although part of it is that as of sometime this year, mobile providers are required by law (FCC regs) to perform spam filtering of SMS messages, and their email-to-text service is a major source of spam. They've just implemented it extremely poorly. Isn't there some PC texting app that can be scripted the way you can write an applescript for any mac app? If not, there do exist services out there for SMS messaging. Unfortunately, to get around the same problem, they now have to pay the mobile provider(s), and those costs are passed on to their users. I had looked into a few of them before writing the applescript solution. However, there are lots of ways to send messages (that require a data connection), and pretty soon, there will be no 2G network and every SMS message will require a data connection moving forward, so there will no longer be a benefit to trying to get automated SMS messagesto work. While I was working out the SMS issue, I set up a discord server to send my automation messages, but there are dozens of other solutions and they don't cost a penny. Plus, they're more feature-rich. E.g., you could mute certain types of messages or direct different messages to different channels and individually mute those channels, etc. I'm thinking that I may refine my messaging system to use a mix, and put less important messages in muted channels… At the same time, I have considered demanding a discount from TMo since they're blocking my legitimate messages that I essentially pay for. Also, I recommendsending feedback to the FCC.9Visto1like0ComentariosRe: Why is T-Mobile mail-to-SMS gateway sporadically blocking GMail?
Davis_1377 wrote: Im having the same problem as well "blocked AUP#CDRBL" Hopefully we can all get this resolved or I might find a new carrier. According to what I've learned, all the major carriers are using the same spam filter contractor (CloudMark). I checked and there are people complaining about this same problem in other carriers' forums. If you don't have a mac where you can run my applescript workaround to this problem, you have 2 options: tell the sprint/T-Mobile support people that they need to create a ticket with CloudMark to un-block the email address you're sending from or switch carriers (which may be a faster fix than calling repeatedly until you get a TMo/Sprint support personwho knows what CloudMark is).6Visto0likes0ComentariosRe: Why is T-Mobile mail-to-SMS gateway sporadically blocking GMail?
James Britt wrote: 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 mightblocked, it's all pretty arbitrary. GMail keeps re-sending a messages that getrejected (I think for up to 4 days). SoI 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. My messages eventually got completely blocked. The emails bounced back with the error "sender rejected". Imade multiple calls to both Speint and T-Mobile about this. Most of the support people are clueless about this, but I finally got a tier 2 guy named Dan who knew what was going on. He created a ticket with CloudMark. CloudMark responded that "users" reported my email as a source of spam, which I know was BS because I created that email address to exclusively use email-to-text to *only* send messages to myself. And it wasn't hacked. They un-black-listed my email address and messages resumed. But they couldn't guarantee it wouldn't get blacklisted again. That was about 2 weeks worth of messages blocked. The thing that tells me that their implementation is poor is that a customer has no way to know if they never received a legitimate message (unless they were sending it to themselves). So I submitted a complaint to the FCC, whose new requirements implemented this year requiring providers to address spam started all this. I have no problem with fighting spam. It's the implementation that is the problem. Customers should have a spam box and the ability to whitelist senders.3Visto3likes0ComentariosRe: Why is T-Mobile mail-to-SMS gateway sporadically blocking GMail?
Only 4 days ago? Mine started getting randomly delayed around the end of April. Changing the message content makes no difference. I sendon average 10-12 different messages a day this way. Perhaps 1 or 2 in 10 messages in my experience is significantly delayed. About maybe a week or so ago, I worked around this issue by writing an applescript that sends SMS messages via the messages app instead of the email to text service. No more delays. No more blocks. The only concern I have with it is that it likely requires my phone has a data or WiFi connection, which somewhat defeats the purpose, but my understanding is that SMS messages will soon require a data connection anyway since the 2G network infrastructure is being decommissioned.7Visto1like0ComentariosRe: How to fix significant delays of messages sent using the email to SMS service?
Weird. I didn't get an email notifying me of that response (or perhaps I just missed it). I may make a proper repo, but for now, I put it in a gist. It might or might not require the recipient to be in your contacts. I haven't fully tested it, but it works fine for sending messages to myself - and happens pretty much immediately, though I still currently have discord set up and it arrives a half a second sooner every time.11Visto0likes0ComentariosRe: How to fix significant delays of messages sent using the email to SMS service?
I actually (think I) solved this problem by working around it. I switched from using email-to-text to an AppleScript that tells the messages app on macOS to send the SMS. My only concern there is that my phone may need to have either a WiFi or data connection in order for the SMS to be sent, which makes it no better than an iMessage, but from what I've heard, the ability to send/receive SMS without a data connection is going away with the decommissioning of the 2G network anyway.67Visto0likes0Comentarios