Step 4a,b - General MMSC Configuration

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Anonymous
Posted on Saturday, July 19, 2003 - 07:15 pm:   

Im having a T-mobile in the USA. I was setting for the setp 4 i was totally lost.
a)Local Host Name or IP Address: is that my pc local host or t-mobile MMS setting ip address?
b)Domain Name for MMS E-Mail:?????
c)SMTP Relay Host: is that my local email provider i.e. smtp.xxxx.com or mail.xxxx.com
Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support
Posted on Tuesday, July 22, 2003 - 04:53 pm:   

a.) Local Host Name or IP Address refers to your local host.

When you send an MMS message, what happens behind the scenes is that an MMS notification message is sent to the recipient over SMS. This MMS notification message contains header information about the MMS message, and a URL pointer for retrieving the MMS message content. The phone then needs to initiate a WAP/HTTP connection to retrieve the content of the MMS message. The MMSC uses the "Local Host Name or IP Address" to specify the host name in this URL ... so your PC running the gateway software must be publicly accessible over the internet.

b.) Domain Name for MMS E-Mail:

The MMSC has an integrated SMTP server. To configure the MMSC to send/receive e-mail is very similar to configuring an e-mail server.

"Domain Name for MMS E-Mail" refers to an e-mail domain name that will be associated with MMSC users on this gateway. (i.e., the domain part of a user@domain address)

Configuring the domain name here is only part of the puzzle. You need to configure internet DNS or another mail server to route SMTP e-mail for this domain to the gateway.

c.) SMTP Relay Host:

The SMTP server built into the gateway is not a "smart mailer". What this means is that when the gateway has an e-mail message to send out, it does not consult DNS to find the appropriate SMTP server to connect to in order to deliver the e-mail message. Instead, it connects to another SMTP mail server which acts as a "relay host", and delivers the mail on its behalf.

This might be a mail server at a local provider ... as long as they know that they are configured to relay mail on behalf of the domain name that you are using for the MMS users.

-bn
Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support
Posted on Tuesday, July 22, 2003 - 04:55 pm:   

Oh ... one other note. If you're not going to be actually having MMS users send messages from their phone to an e-mail address, you could just supply dummy values for the MMS domain name and the SMTP relay host.