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I fixed O2’s photo messaging to email service

47Leading on from this post, I have implemented a way of sending an email from my phone to Flickr containing a full sized image. With thanks to James at Purple Cloud (my host) who installed a newer version of wget for me, everything is now working a-ok. I can now send an email to a pop3 account (based here at mrblack.co.uk) and every minute that account is checked, if everything is fine the email is read, photo extracted, and sent on to flickr as a proper email with a full sized photo attached. Yay!

I am currently thinking about making this available for everybody on O2 who wants to send full sized photos emails from their phone to people or to flickr directly rather than sending them an O2 advert. I might also see if I can set this up for any other carriers who fail to offer full sized email photo attachments. As for the code, I will make it available when I have fully tested the system, and cleaned up all the filthy comments.

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One Response to “I fixed O2’s photo messaging to email service”

  1. feather-spitter Says:
    July 27th, 2005 at 1:36 am

    I just joined o2 with the intention of photoblogging my holiday for my children to see back home.

    Now 02 have done this to our multimedia message format !!

    Is there anything you can do to help me out? (I’m in awe of the technical detail you’ve described, so it would have to be a fairly straighforward solution!)

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