Email to MMS? (MMS to Email already works)

Recently I found out that I can send MMS messages from my mobile phone
to my email address. I was stoked this worked. When I looked at the
sender email address, it appeared as:
my-mobile-number@domain-name.com.au

But when I tried to reply from email to mobile, error messages bounced
back to my email InBox. When I contacted my mobile network, they told
me I can only send from email to mobile on a post-paid plan (I am
currently on a pre-paid plan, and will not be changing).
I am trying to find out if there is some way I can "get around" this
by possibly changing the settings on my mobile phone. I think this
might be possible, for two reasons:
1. I am currently able to send messages from MMS to email without any
hindrances. If that is the case, how can they block incoming MMS?
Even when my account has zero credit, they cannot block incoming
traffic, only outgoing.
2. When MMS capability was initially set up on my mobile phone, it
was done simply by changing the settings – my mobile network didn’t
need to make any changes at their end; it was all handset related.

I have numerous header details in the email I received from mobile to
email account, so I am hoping to get some advice here. Also, my
mobile handset has SMS, MMS, and Email capability.

Gas Bag <shazlikd@yahoo.com.au> wrote in news:d109bd1d-e30b-4c62-af79-
315157674804@a26g2000prf.googlegroups.com:

> I have numerous header details in the email I received from mobile to
> email account, so I am hoping to get some advice here. Also, my
> mobile handset has SMS, MMS, and Email capability.
>
>

Many US carriers have webpages you can enter messages into to send to
phones. Does yours? I like the simple ways...(c;]

On Jan 2, 5:11*pm, Will Kemp <w...@xxxx.swaggie.net> wrote:
> Gas Bag wrote:
> > Recently I found out that I can send MMS messages from my mobile phone
> > to my email address. *I was stoked this worked. *When I looked at the
> > sender email address, it appeared as:
> > my-mobile-num...@domain-name.com.au
>
> > But when I tried to reply from email to mobile, error messages bounced
> > back to my email InBox. *When I contacted my mobile network, they told
> > me I can only send from email to mobile on a post-paid plan (I am
> > currently on a pre-paid plan, and will not be changing).
> > I am trying to find out if there is some way I can "get around" this
> > by possibly changing the settings on my mobile phone.
>
> Depending on the phone and its capabilities, you may be able to get
> around it by changing the From: address that goes on emails you send.
> Change this so any replies go to an email account with POP3 capability
> (e.g., gmail) and then configure the phone's email system to pick up
> mail from that POP3 box.
>
> You may find that this generates more data traffic than you want it to,
> though, as each time the phone checks the mailbox it will generate
> traffic - even if there's no email there - but you should be able to
> configure how often it checks.


Thanks heaps for your reply.
I currently have MMS set up on my mobile handset, not email. I can
send messages from my mobile handset to email addresses.......using
MMS, not "mobile email".

Gas Bag wrote:
> 2. When MMS capability was initially set up on my mobile phone, it
> was done simply by changing the settings – my mobile network didn’t
> need to make any changes at their end; it was all handset related.

MMS mail needs significant cooperation from the network. Although you
only configured the phone, the network will already have been configured.

If you could defeat the block, it might be considered fraud, especially
if they are unable to bill you for the incoming email.

Australian phone operators may have completely different billing
policies from UK ones, so uk.telecom may not be relevant, and you would
want uk.telecom.mobile, not uk.telecom, if the UK was the same. My
guess is that the restriction is related to a called party billing
policy. (I don't know what the UK position is on inbound MMS email, I'm
just suggesting that it may not be relevant to Australia.)