The Bold Explorer
MMS (Basic)
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A SIMPLE MMS WORKAROUND
The absence of MMS (multimedia)
messaging can be annoying for those of
us without BIS.
One alternative is to send pictures
via regular email attachments using
Logicmail.
If you just HAVE to send an MMS, there
may be a workaround. You can use
email-to-text for MMS messages. Some
cell carriers will let you send SMS or
MMS messages to their users via email.
For example, if you want to send an
MMS picture message to a number at
Telus Canada, you open LogicMail, and
write an email with a picture
attachment to
[10digitnumber]@mms.mb.telus.com. The
recipient can respond, and it will
show up in your email.
If someone wants to send you a picture
message, instruct them to enter your
email address in their text message
client's "To:" field. You'll get the
message in LogicMail.
What I did -- before learning to write
my own MMS service books (see below)
-- was go through my contacts, and
enter
[10digitnumber]@their_carrier_message_address,
so that I could email my contacts a
multimedia message easily from
LogicMail. It's obviously not perfect,
but better than nothing.
I'm not sure that all of these work
for MMS (some may be SMS only), but
here are some addresses for Canada:
[10digitnumber]@txt.bell.ca (Bell and Solo)
[10digitnumber]@pcs.rogers.com (Rogers)
[10digitnumber]@sms.fido.ca (Fido)
[10digitnumber]@fido.ca (Fido)
[10digitnumber]@mms.mb.telus.com (Telus)
[10digitnumber]@mms.mb.telus.com (Koodo)
[10digitnumber]@mms.mb.telus.com (Public Mobile)
[10digitnumber]@vmobile.ca (Virgin Mobile)
[10digitnumber]@mobiletxt.ca (PC Mobile)
[10digitnumber]@sms.sasktel.com (SaskTel)
[10digitnumber]@pcs.sasktelmobility.com (SaskTel)
[10digitnumber]@text.mts.net (MTS Allstream Inc./ Manitoba Telecom Services Inc.)
[10digitnumber]@txt.freedommobile.ca (Freedom Mobile)
Ultimately, you'll have to search and
experiment to see what works for you.
Here is a link for similar addresses
worldwide, but the best approach is to
search the carriers' websites and
support forums.
(HTM) Mobile Carrier Gateway Addresses
WRITING MMS SERVICE BOOKS
A how-to for the technically inclined
can be found here:
(HTM) MMS (Advanced)
Writing service books is difficult and
involves a great deal of
experimentation. Be prepared to fail
repeatedly!