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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.17Visto3likes0ComentariosRe: 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.12Visto2likes0ComentariosRe: 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.4Visto1like0ComentariosWhy 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.2KViews1like11Comentarios