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| steven New member Username: Silenthunter Post Number: 14 Registered: 02-2010 |
Though sending to an email address is nearly the most basic function of MMS, there's still some public Email service on some famous website don't support it well, a main problem is after recive the MMS, it produce a multi-attachment mail instead of displaying first page text of MMS. For MMS sent to mail,I know if like the first page text to be displayed in mail body, first page must has only text,this point has been tested on most email service, no problem. But even though, there's other case of changing to attachment. so my question would be, what mail format should the mail server support for display MMS as general mail with text? Thanks! | |||
| Des - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Desosms Post Number: 1915 Registered: 08-2008 |
Hi Steven, I don't think it's so much a mail server issue as it is an MMSC issue. Or at best, it's a combination of the two. There is no standard for how the conversion/reformatting from MMS to e-mail should occur. Within an MMS message, all of the content exists as individual files, even the text part(s). For display on an MMS client, one of the content parts is a SMIL file, which specifies the presentation language for how the content parts should be displayed. As SMIL is not supported by many e-mail clients (and when it is supported, it is extremely awkward), the SMIL part is usually removed for MMS to e-mail conversion. To convert to e-mail, the multipart parts of the MMS message are encoded in a MIME multipart e-mail message. How the rest is handled is up to the MMSC. Our opinion is that the first text part of the MMS should be the first part of the e-mail multipart, so that the e-mail client treats it as the "text" of the message. If there are other text parts, it is a good idea for the MMSC to encode them with "inline" disposition so that the e-mail client displays all of the text parts in the message body instead of treating them as attachments. (However, not all e-mail clients understand the "inline" disposition attribute.) That's the basics ... but most operator MMSCs add extra junk when routing MMS to e-mail ... operator logos, HTML formatting, advertisements ... so you end up with a mess that varies from operator to operator. -- Des NowSMS Support | |||
| steven New member Username: Silenthunter Post Number: 15 Registered: 02-2010 |
Thanks for your instruction,realy glad to learn from you! | |||
