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agus
Posted on Wednesday, March 05, 2003 - 09:46 am:   

Dear Sir,

We are using your gtway to send MMS notification.
the gtway only have a private IP address inside our company intranet. I already put some *.mms file under this public site = http://www.ristinet.com/~wap/mms/arrow.mms
(or pretty.mms & ibn.mms )
I already use Wap Profile for MMS that is able to access any WAP site via GPRS .
I'm using ericsson T68i, What should I set the MMS Message Server in MMS menu?
if my *.mms is wrong. can you let me know *.mms available in the internet and their sites for me to download?

Thank you
Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support (Bryce)
Posted on Wednesday, March 05, 2003 - 09:37 pm:   

Hi.

There may be other problems with your content, but I tried accessing the link in your message, and the first problem that I encountered was that the web server that the message was on is returning a repsonse indicating that the MIME type for the message is "text/plain". You need to configure the web server so that it returns the content type as "application/vnd.wap.mms-message" when serving MMS content.

To answer your question, the "MMS Message Server" setting usually isn't important when you are receiving messages only. It is important when you are sending MMS messages. When you are sending MMS messages, it should be set to the address of your gateway with /username=password appended to the URL. (See "Step 6" under the "Quick Start Guide" link on this web site if you're interested in that bit.)

-bn
agus
Posted on Thursday, March 06, 2003 - 01:30 am:   

Thanks for reply,

T68i always ask it, even when downloading.
download can't proceed unless the "MMS Message Server" is set. any suggestion?
Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support (Bryce)
Posted on Thursday, March 06, 2003 - 03:58 am:   

Must be a different release of firmware in the T68i.

When I first got my T68i, I used it without having the value set.

You can point it to your NowSMS Gateway ... (see "Step 6" under the "Quick Start Guide" link on this web site for the syntax ... basically it is http://ip.address.or.host.name:port/username=password).

-bn
agus
Posted on Friday, March 07, 2003 - 08:33 am:   

thanks for your support

is my configuration below correct?
the gtway is in the private intranet sending MMS notification to user for downloading MMS from public WebServer?
this error always appear=
Error:Unable to fetch URL

must the gtway have public IP as well?
agus
Posted on Friday, March 07, 2003 - 08:51 am:   

my observation: the error didn't appear if web server is in the same private intranet. and MMS notification work succesfully (but i must use dial up for downloading, and my old nokia WAP Gateway seems not support SAR & Large file transfer)
Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support (Bryce)
Posted on Monday, March 10, 2003 - 02:31 pm:   

agus,

I'm a bit confused, but maybe I can offer an explanation that will help.

When you send an MMS notification, you are telling the mobile phone to fetch the specified URL.

As a "sanity check" to verify that the URL is valid (and the message content in the proper format), the gateway fetches the URL when you tell it to send an MMS message.

It then sends the MMS notification message out to the handset with a pointer to the original URL.

So both the Now SMS/MMS Gateway, and the recipient mobile phone must be able to access the URL for which the notification is being sent.

Does that make sense?

-bn
thomas
Posted on Sunday, March 16, 2003 - 10:14 am:   

hi, first thanks for so many valuable hints!
I have two questions I cant answer:

Is it possible to submit all type of messages using a GSM modem? I am thinking of Push, OTA and MMS notification messages. ( I cants see that it works when I try) Is it possible that the operator SMSC blocks/filters such messages, since they aren't supposed to be sent from regular mobiles?

A second question: is it possible to change the sender ID in the SMS submitted through such a GSM modem?
Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support (Bryce)
Posted on Monday, March 17, 2003 - 06:47 pm:   

It's theoretically possible that a message could be blocked at the SMS level, but I haven't seen this occur.

You could be blocked at the MMS level, where an MMS notification points to a URL that cannot be downloaded via the default MMS profile configured in the mobile phone.

The sender id canNOT be changed on a GSM modem connection.

-bn