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Get 0000000000 as sender when receiving SMS from e-mail
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Posted by: xspeedy

I have an unlocked SLVR L7 that I bought off e-bay, and I have added the AT&T (Cingular Blue) web sessions. I also added an e-mail gateway of 0000000000 (ten zeros) for the ability to send a message to an e-mail address.

The problem I have is that if I send myself a text message from an e-mail account such as Yahoo, even though the popup for the message says there is a new message from xxx@yahoo.com, the return address within the message body shows up as "From: 0000000000". So basically, I can't reply to the message and hit send as I normally would. I have to type in an address as if I'm sending a new message.

Anyone see this and/or have a fix? I have searched several forums, but I have heard of this complaint only once, and have not see a real fix.

Posted by: Paolo

there is nothing wrong with that, thats how it works for us in canada too on the Rogers network. the SMS system is just not able to support E-mail addresses, because it asks for a phone number, so by putting ten 0's as the phone number, and putting the e-mail address in the beginning of the body of the message, the email gateway decodes this information and uses it. Remember, the sms gateway was never designed to support internet e-mail, so they had to keep it backwards compatible with the sms gateway. This is how it works, if you dont like this, use a pop based e-mail.

Posted by: xspeedy

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Originally Posted by Paolo

there is nothing wrong with that, thats how it works for us in canada too on the Rogers network. the SMS system is just not able to support E-mail addresses, because it asks for a phone number, so by putting ten 0's as the phone number, and putting the e-mail address in the beginning of the body of the message, the email gateway decodes this information and uses it. Remember, the sms gateway was never designed to support internet e-mail, so they had to keep it backwards compatible with the sms gateway. This is how it works, if you dont like this, use a pop based e-mail.

But oddly enough, with an AT&T (Cingular Blue) branded V600, the e-mail messages come in with a proper return e-mail address. I could not find anything special within the V600 configuration that would make it perform differently.

Posted by: Paolo

maybe the flex configuration parses that info..

Posted by: xspeedy

Thanks Paolo. It would be nice if the fix incorporated a simple seem edit. I appreciate your responding! You have helped me out a few times in the past.