Orange SMTP to SMS Test

[Guest ddmf]

I'm trying to get AUTD working on my smartphone. Now, some people are getting a txt to their phone when they email [email protected] and some people (me) are not...

If you've got 2 mins to spare, and are on orange, send an email and see if it works, recipient being [email protected] (ie, [email protected] ) and then vote on the poll whether you got a txt or not!

If anyone knows why this seems to be so random, please let me know as i'm almost bald in the centre of my head from hair pulling!

[Guest Jon_]

got this email back: removed my number and replaced it with the #'s

Recipient: <###########@orange.net>

Reason: 5.1.1 unknown or illegal alias: ###########@orange.net

[Guest Cybertronic]

Didn't work for me, my email bounced back saying it was undeliverable :?

[Guest zeta101]

bounched back for me too, i also tried +44 instead of the leading 0 and that didnt work.

[Guest ddmf]

cheers, so it's not just me then! i think a phonecall to orange corporate services is needed to find this out... oh god, what has my life come to

[Guest flyswat]

AFAIK this has never been an orange service? The only service like it is where orange can send you a text message when you receive an E-mail sent to your orange E-mail address.

[Guest ddmf]

that's what i thought too - but some people have been able to use this to send always-up-to-date sms notifications for automatic sync with exchange 2003... i thought i was going mad!

[Guest Paul [MVP]]

What you need to do is sign up for an orange email account, and when you choose and alias, enter your phone number.

Then, turn on sms alerts to your mail.

Lo and behold, [email protected] will then deliver to your phone.

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Posted from my SmartPhone!

[Guest ddmf]

"]What you need to do is sign up for an orange email account, and when you choose and alias, enter your phone number.  

Then, turn on sms alerts to your mail.  

Lo and behold, [email protected] will then deliver to your phone.

Did that work properly for you, as all the sms alerts I got were malformed, and the phone wouldn't accept them: ie "Email alert From: [email protected]" rather than just the clsid

:)

[Guest Paul [MVP]]

It seemed to work for me... strange!

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[Guest flyswat]

... hmm, it just doesn't work for anyone else...

[Guest Paul [MVP]]

Let me try setting it up again...

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[Guest Toyota-F1.com]

Firstly, my number is already registered with an Orange.net e-mail address.

Secondly, I tried sending an e-mail to [my number]@orange.net without any text. Didn't work.

I tried while typing something in the subject header. Didn't work.

Then I tried from a different e-mail address. Same, didn't work.

All this was done from Outlook Express 6.

:)

[Guest Paul [MVP]]

You probably didn't register [email protected] then, you probably chose a different address!

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Posted from my SmartPhone!

[Guest flyswat]

That makes sense. Orange send me an SMS message when anyone sends me an E-mail to my orange email address, so if I had setup my E-mail address as my [email protected], it would probably would work OK.

Although I get enough junk mail now, if I had my phone number in my E-mail address, god knows how much more junk SMSs I would receive!

[Guest ddmf]

"]You probably didn't register [email protected] then, you probably chose a different address!

well, that's what i thought, and i'd set up my orange.net email about 3 years ago or something, so i tried sending it to [email protected], but the sms alert was malformed and it didn't cause the phone to connect to exchange anyway!

i think at&t users in the states have smtp addresses for their phones automatically, and orange nl users too... we don't :)

[Guest Paul [MVP]]

Goddam, they must have changed the SMS format, it doesn't work now, it just displays the SMS :)

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[Guest ddmf]

back to the drawing board then!

[Guest Paul [MVP]]

The O2 SMS alert used to work too, but that's no longer free :-(

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[Guest ddmf]

"]The O2 SMS alert used to work too, but that's no longer free :-(

I wonder if it'd be viable if i bought a bundle of txt's, or signed up to a commercial sms sending service, then divvied up the costs...

Hmm...

[Guest AngelOfRage]

In terms of Orange.net emails, having your alias as your phone number will only be the same as having an alias, its an alias, it will not automatically send them to your phone. the only way of doing this is to have txt alerts setup on your email account, but then there are problems with that (problems with spam, problems with messed up messages)

but please remember one thing if you end up ringing the website support number (the 50p a minute one) be nice as i work there :)

[Guest ddmf]

In terms of Orange.net emails, having your alias as your phone number will only be the same as having an alias, its an alias, it will not automatically send them to your phone. the only way of doing this is to have txt alerts setup on your email account, but then there are problems with that (problems with spam, problems with messed up messages)

I'd kinda come to that conclusion already, i know some mobile operators give a phone an smtp address, but orange obviously doesn't (unless you have to pay for the priviledge - which i would)

but please remember one thing if you end up ringing the website support number (the 50p a minute one) be nice as i work there  :)

Aye right, like i'll be paying 50p a minute hehe...

Cheers though!!