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skeefiez11First activity
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How can I read/access tmomail.net?

Tmomail.net is a way of sending text messages to your phone via email. It is useful when you have to give an email address, but want the message to be delivered as an SMS (plain text) or MMS (pictures or HTML content) text  *instead of* an actual email.It actually isn’t very reliable as T-Mobile has all kinds of anti-SPAM features in place. These often block the texts from being received by your phone.However, if it DID work, you would see the message on your phone as a regular text message. So, as long as you didn’t delete the text from your phone or have your texts deleting regularly, you would see it under the text thread from which it was sent.

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7 months ago
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cterrianFirst activity
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How to email MMS to phone?

then that would be an issue with Hotmail and not so much TMO. if it were every email out there then sure..TMO issue..but seeing as how one works fine but the other doesnt points at whom the issue lies with.   carriers dont adjust to apps..the apps get adjusted to the carrier.  There is *definitely* an issue with T-Mobile where it comes to ‘tmomail.net’, @fireguy_6364 . I have been using this service to receive “on call” alerts for work issues for years. A couple of years ago, the reliability of tmomail.net messages started decreasing. At the time, I had a discussion with a VP of T-Mobile who works with the ‘tmomail.net’ product: it seems they’ve been having massive issues with SPAM, so they’ve tightened their SPAM rules more and more over the years.I have periodically changed my alert message format, as well as the email provider with which I send the messages. Upon analyzing the failure messages I receive (in my junk mailbox hours after the message was sent), I usually can fix the is

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6 months ago
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DDave89First activity
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@tmomail.net not working

I’m using iCloud mail now; however, this has happened in the past with gmail and other providers. The majority of my current failure messages say “host tmo-west.mx.a.cloudfilter.net[35.85.199.61]   said: 452 4.1.0 <myaccount@icloud.com> server temporarily unavailable   AUP#MXRT (in reply to MAIL FROM command)”.Occasionally they say “host tmo-east.mx.a.cloudfilter.net[54.147.231.4]   refused to talk to me: 421 tmo-ibgw-5001a.ext.cloudfilter.net cmsmtp too   many sessions from 17.57.156.19 AUP#CNCT” (the ‘17...’ IP of which represents iCloud).Another rare one is: “host tmo-east.mx.a.cloudfilter.net[34.232.155.8]   refused to talk to me: 421 tmo-ibgw-5003a.ext.cloudfilter.net cmsmtp   17.57.156.8 blocked AUP#CNCT”I know that “AUP” means “Acceptable Use Policy”, which suggests the failures are related to SPAM-checks. However, these are single messages, sent across a week (one week per month), to a single phone number - they’re not mass emails, forwarded, or sent to multiple phones.I

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BBiggiFirst activity
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sending text to my cell phone using @tmomail.net no longer working?

Same problem using iCloud email. The failure messages go into my junk mail 100% of the time, hours after I sent the original message, so I had to keep an eye out for them.They generally look like this:<my-10-digit-phone#@tmomail.net>: host tmo-west.mx.a.cloudfilter.net[35.85.199.61]   said: 452 4.1.0 <my-sending-email-account@icloud.com> server temporarily unavailable   AUP#MXRT (in reply to MAIL FROM command) OR, occasionally:<my-10-digit-phone#@tmomail.net>: host tmo-east.mx.a.cloudfilter.net[54.147.231.4]   refused to talk to me: 421 tmo-ibgw-5001a.ext.cloudfilter.net cmsmtp too   many sessions from 17.57.156.19 AUP#CNCT The ‘17.’ IP address in the 2nd failure is an iCloud server.

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3 months ago
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MrMarcinFirst activity
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Email to SMS via @tmomail.net Not Working

According to this answer, use of certain words in the message can trigger SPAM-filtering (which this looks like).In that answer, @HeavenM , Community Manager, says:… Are you sending these messages from your personal email address or from an automated email service? Does the email that you are sending from include words like admin, info, alert, test, contactus, or sales? (This is not a complete list of words in the email address that are filtered but gives you an idea.) The tmomail.net message route is not designed for ANY business messages … Also, this page defines “Consumer” vs “Non-Consumer” messages. It seems backwards, but “Consumer” messages are the ones people send to themselves or their friends, like right from your phone. “Non-Consumer” messages are the ones businesses send, such as when you get an authentication code from your bank or a reminder from your scouting organization, etc - anything that’s sending for a business or organizational purpose. “Non-Consumer” messages have

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5 months ago
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MrMarcinFirst activity
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Email to SMS via @tmomail.net Not Working

@TooOld said: I have logged into the “From email:” gmail account and manually sent a simple test message (Subject: “Test”; Body “Test”, no attachments), to <MyPhoneNbr>@tmomail.net and its delivery failed as well.  So SPAM does not appear to be the issue. Anything sent from a mail account to the tmomail.net address goes through TMO’s SPAM filters. If you get a failed delivery message, you will see AUP#<something> in the failure message. AUP stands for “Acceptable Use Policy” - which means it was SPAM-filtered. Also, TMO’s 3rd-party SPAM-filtering service decides when and if a particular mail service is blocked. So, one day it might be gmail, the next it might be icloud, or anything else. And, the reasons vary: maybe something in the text, something in the header, too many messages being sent from a particular service (total, not just the ones you’re sending to yourself), or whatever else they have configured.I’ve been working with this for on-call messages from work for ove

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5 months ago
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