[126446] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Contacts re email deliverability problem to tmomail.net?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Graham Freeman)
Sat May 15 18:38:45 2010
From: Graham Freeman <jahiel@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinY9Kp49yh_ADGaPyfNBL_ffTOGs5Qlc_QwbkUq@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 15:38:22 -0700
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>=20
> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Al Iverson =
<aiverson@spamresource.com> wrote:
>> I'm surprised more gateways aren't rate limiting or blocking you; my
>> experience with these services is such that the providers really want
>> you to utilize SMS instead, if you build up any sort of significant
>> volume. I've certainly seen multiple providers delay this inbound =
mail
>> periodically.
Hi, Al,
That may be, but it would surprise me. The carriers still get paid by =
virtue of charging the recipients for the SMSes, and in this particular =
case cutting off this line of communication is leaving money on the =
table, as email->SMS deliverability is desired yet optional/secondary =
functionality of the app.
On 15 May 10, at 08:29 , Jaren Angerbauer wrote:
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> Al beat me to responding to this, but +1 on his comment. IIUC, the
> email-to-sms is definitely not for commercial use (as in an iPhone
> app), and is more for 1 to 1 type communications. If your client is
> looking to build a business around SMS communications, they need to
> make the investment to use the standard SMS platforms.
>=20
> --Jaren
Hi, Jaren,
There appears to be a misunderstanding. The messages in question are in =
fact 1:1 interpersonal communication between my client's customers (the =
people who use my client's iPhone messaging app) and their =
correspondents (to whom we're trying to deliver via the email->SMS =
gateway). We're not sending ads, newsletters, or other such cruft.
...
In any event, back to the original question: I would really appreciate =
any contacts at Tmobile who can help me sort this out. All of the =
Tmobile postmaster addresses I've tried have bounced. I've posted on =
the developer web forum, but that forum is specifically geared toward =
people developing on Tmobile phones, which isn't us.
thanks,
Graham
