Re: [tlug] How to setup MMS for Softbank mobile-phones ?

[John Fremlin <john@example.com>]

Clemens Schwaighofer wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:06, John Fremlin <john@example.com> wrote:
> > The MMS transport will use SMS to send a short notification to the
> > recipient phone indicating that a message should be fetched. The phone
> > will then fetch the message (over MMS/HTTP).
>
> Honestly I doubt that. When I (docomo) send an email with an image
> then it is a standard MIME mail. 100% standard. When I create a
> deco-mail then it is again standard MIME HTML mail. There is no MMS
> for those phones. Softbank might use it, because from "old" times when
> they were j-phone/vodafone. But the others for 100% sure don't.

I guess DoCoMo is using i-Mode http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-mode

> And even softbank sends normal mails. deco-mail is the same as for
> docomo and when I send an image from softbank to docomo or vica versa
> it is just pure mail.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAP_Push

MMS uses MIME.

The Softbank MMS gateway will convert to and from email.

The phone sends and receives MMS which is converted to emails by the 
message centre. To external users it looks like email.

I don't know how the old-style handsets do it but this works with 3G 
Softbank. It's branded "email" and not "MMS" but it uses MMS.