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

[Clemens Schwaighofer <gullevek@example.com>]

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:06, John Fremlin <john@example.com> wrote:
> Clemens Schwaighofer wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 14:00, John Fremlin <john@example.com> wrote:
>>> Godwin Stewart wrote:
>>>> On 21/03/09 09:41, Leon Zhang wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>    Hey, I bought a Nokia e71 to replace my old Softbank mobile-phone.
>>>>> I love this E71, because I can use Wireless-LAN. But, I don't know how
>>>>> to setup the Multimedia Message access point for softbank. Is there
>>>>> anybody can kindly give me some suggestions ?
>>>> Your best bet is to call your mobile operator (or visit their website) and
>>>> have them send you the settings via SMS.
>>> That is extremely unhelpful advice.
>>>
>>> Softbank refuse to hand out the settings. As far as I know, it is a
>>> matter of policy.
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> Just out of curiosity, why would you want to use MMS or SMS in Japan?
>> I have to yet meet anyone here using it.
>
> Everybody uses MMS. When you send an "email" from (many) keiteis it is
> sent over MMS, and if it is to another keitei then it is delivered over
> MMS.
>
> 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.

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.


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