My wireless provider insists on attaching what is essentially a text advertisement to the bottom of each photo message I send via my phone.

My suggestion for Smugmug is to allow a member to specify a text string that can be stripped whenever a photo message is received, so that it doesn't show up in the photo caption.

Originally Posted by flyingpylon My wireless provider insists on attaching what is essentially a text advertisement to the bottom of each photo message I send via my phone. My suggestion for Smugmug is to allow a member to specify a text string that can be stripped whenever a photo message is received, so that it doesn't show up in the photo caption.

Hmm... Good idea. Thanks for letting us know about that.

Originally Posted by flyingpylon My wireless provider insists on attaching what is essentially a text advertisement to the bottom of each photo message I send via my phone. My suggestion for Smugmug is to allow a member to specify a text string that can be stripped whenever a photo message is received, so that it doesn't show up in the photo caption.

Hey flyingpylon --

Yeah, I noticed that T-Mobile does that annoying thing to me too. And I think such an option from Smugmug would be great. But I couldn't wait, so I recently hacked together my own solution:

My web/email provider, Pair.com gives me a lot of control over mail coming to my domains. They run the qmail mail server and also have the procmail filterg tools available.

So I was able to set up an address, let's say, smug@mydomain.com. It automatically gets filtered through a procmail script which strips out the offending "This message was sent from a T-Mobile wireless phone" footer. The script then forwards the mail to myname@email.smugmug.com

If you have your own domain and your provider allows you to run scripts for your e-mail, I'd be happy to post my "recipes".

--Darryl

Darryl-

Thanks for the message. My first thought was to do what you described, but then I thought surely there must be others with the same problem... and wouldn't it be easier for smugmug to do it for me???

In the meantime, I will probably explore what I can do on my end when I have some time. Thanks again.