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stuffradio
July 1st, 2008, 18:58
This isn't a direct programming question, but it should be here because I'm doing something with programming.

I just want to know if when you send emails from your mobile phone (like when you go to text messages, send email) do you have to enter your email address, etc.?

I'm trying to think of the best way to get a website to recognize emails from a user so they can upload their own images via mobile. The way I think I can do it if this is the case with all phones, is each user gets a unique access code that they put in the subject, and then if the access code matches it will upload with that users account.

Tracker
July 1st, 2008, 21:32
Not sure about with any others but on all the verizon phones I have had you can do that.

The address it was sent from was *number*@vztext.com or *number*@vzwpix.com I think :P

Tree
July 1st, 2008, 23:13
Give this page a read: http://www.evolt.org/article/Incoming_Mail_and_PHP/18/27914/index.html

krakjoe
July 2nd, 2008, 03:08
When I send messages from my phone the originating email address is always right, but some phones use their cellular ISP's SMTP servers to deliver email, would be harder to detect who sends what ... unless inside of the email you had them attach their login information and your bot can parse messages for that ...

I can't think of a phone with a camera that doesn't have java ... I'd think a midlet would be most versatile in this case ...

Tracker
July 2nd, 2008, 03:33
I can't think of a phone with a camera that doesn't have java ... I'd think a midlet would be most versatile in this case ...

If you have a palm os based phone (Treo 650 in my case)

It is a pain to find java for it. So be careful in that event ;)