*" PDUs can
surely get confusing for the first few times! But hey, you don't need to bother about
them until you want to get deeper into MMS delivery. Till then, you can be happy
pushing messages through the Gateway API!
MMS Gateways do Good Work
Apart from pushing around those PDUs, a typical MMS Gateway does a whole lot
of other things as well. It may convert media files in the MMS message to a format
supported by the mobile device, route the MMS message to an email address, or
forward it to another MMSC. Do check up the MMS services of the gateway you
select. You never know when you will need that extra bit!
It's time to switch gears now. We have seen how to send multimedia messages, let's
look at how we can receive them now.
Adding Spice to Messages: MMS
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Receiving Photos from Customers
via MMS
An MMS message can be delivered to an email address, and that's the easiest way
to receive MMS messages on a server! Simply ask the customers to use your email
address in the To field of the MMS message, and the gateway will send over the
MMS message to your email address. If the gateway is good (and most of them are),
it will send the media files as attachments to the email.
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