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Re: How to fix significant delays of messages sent using the email to SMS service?
Thank you for the various suggestions. I'm at the point where I'm just relying on automated emails instead of texts (though of curse I lose the immediacy I *used* to have with SMS) I am planning on writing a letter to T-Mobile, since I think a call would be a crap-shoot as to who I get, and how well I can explain it verbally. I hope an actual snail-mail document would maybe get some attention, as well as giving me room to detail how all this has come about. This is something they should just fix. The FCC thing is a good idea as well.69Visto3likes0ComentariosRe: Email to text not working
The email-to-text service has become unusable. I've been using a few different addresses to send myself messages for things like home automation. and over the last month or so more and more of them arrive hours or days late, and many just never arrive at all. The "Message blocking" section offers no help for this I've never blocked any of my own email addresses. It's become completely random if I get a message in a few hours, a few days, or not at all. This used to work fine, I would get messages in a few minutes. Whatever party is managing the span filtering is breaking things and making the service unusable.22Visto0likes0ComentariosRe: How to fix significant delays of messages sent using the email to SMS service?
The service is largely unusable now. I've been having delays of hours or days, and manymessages never reach me. I've used different email addresses for different kinds of messages (home automation, etc.) A week ago I created a new GMail address solely to use with email-to-text. Never used for anything else. At first they got though, but even with a brand-new address they were delayed by hours. As the days went on I noticed I was seeing fewer and fewer. Now it appears that EVERY SINGLE MESSAGE is getting blocked. This is nuts. 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.49Visto2likes0ComentariosRe: Why is T-Mobile mail-to-SMS gateway sporadically blocking GMail?
hepcat72 wrote: Davis_1377 wrote: . 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). Switching is not a real good option for me, so I'll complain. But theidea that every single person who has this issue has to request each and every sending address be white-listed is nuts. But even that doesn't solve all the issues. Another data point, to show haw crappy CloudMark is: I created a new gmail address, one that can't possibly have been flagged for anything. I've been sending messages using this new account, and at first none were rejected, but they took hours, or days, to arrive. It's insane. I just checked now for bounce messages, and now even this three-day-old address is getting blocked. This goes way beyond spam filtering. This is just ineptitude. Toadd insult to injury, this Website blocks me if I am using my self-hosted VPN. :) I have to disable it in order to get here and post. I think this is just another example of clueless "filtering"; my colo server must be in some "suspect" IP range so I just get blocked, absent any actual spamming behavior.8Visto0likes0ComentariosRe: Why is T-Mobile mail-to-SMS gateway sporadically blocking GMail?
This same issue is being discussed in another thread (where Hepcat reported getting some help) https://community.t-mobile.com/accounts-services-4/421-4-2-0-sender-rejected-aup-sndr-43446?postid=167850#post16785031Visto0likes0ComentariosRe: Why is T-Mobile mail-to-SMS gateway sporadically blocking GMail?
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.17Visto1like0ComentariosRe: Why is T-Mobile mail-to-SMS gateway sporadically blocking GMail?
What's frustrating is that some messages, a few, never reach me. But many others just show up hours late, or the next day. It's not spam blocking per se, since the messages get through eventually. Even the exact same message will take different durations to reach me. It just seems so random.24Visto0likes0ComentariosWhy 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 backup, is completed. Often the text comes through as expected. But, quite frequently, I get a message from GMail telling me that the email has been rejected , with a message similar to this: 421 4.1.0 <account@neurogami.com> sender rejected AUP#CDRBL That email a via a custom domain that uses GMail to handle mail. The curious thing is that this email (and a few others that are also custom domains with mail handled by GMail) is not really backlisted (as I think CDRBL suggests). Some messages from that account get through. In fact, Google will attempt re-delivery for quite some time if a message is rejected, and very often the mail does eventually getto me (albeit a day or two late). My guess is that T-Mobile is rejecting messages relayed by one or another Google mail server, but not all of them. When a message is eventually resent via one of theservers T-Mobile seems to like, it gets though. Meanwhile it sort of makes the mail-to-SMS gateway less than useful, as the idea of text messaging is that it's fairly immediate.2.1KViews1like11Comentarios