The final step in this “Quick Start Guide” configuration is to configure your mobile phone settings to enable the mobile phone to send MMS messages via the MMSC.

Refer to your mobile phone documentation for information on where specifically to define your MMS settings. Generally speaking, the menus on the mobile phone where MMS settings are defined will allow you to specify a WAP profile that is used for MMS connectivity, together with a URL for an MMSC Message Server (some Nokia phones refer to this setting as an MMS Home Page).

In Define An MMSC User, you defined one or more users to the MMSC. Based on those user definitions, define the MMSC Message Server on your phone using the following format:

http://host.domain:81/username=password or http://ip.address/username=password

Include a port number (e.g., “:81”) in the URL only if you have configured the MMSC HTTP port for a port other than “80”.

The username can be either the user’s alias name or phone number.

As you become more familiar with the Now SMS/MMS gateway, you will want to note that the gateway includes a WAP OTA (“Over The Air”) configuration capability, which enables you to send WAP configuration settings to Nokia and Ericsson mobile phones via special SMS messages, which can greatly simplify the process of configuring these settings on mobile phones. A menu driven interface to the send “WAP OTA” messages can be found in the “web menu interface”.

Assuming that you are successfully receiving messages per Send an MMS Message, once the MMSC Message Server is defined in your phone, you should now be able to send messages.

Initially, we’d suggest you try sending an MMS message to your own phone number as a loopback test to make sure that the basic configuration is working properly.

Note that you will only be able to send MMS messages to e-mail addresses if you completed the MMSC e-mail configuration in Define An MMSC User.

If you receive an error when sending a message, verify that the MMSC message server URL is configured properly in your phone. Next you can check the MMSC-yyyymmdd.log (yyyy is the current year, mm is the current month, dd is the current day) in your gateway directory, to see if there is an entry that corresponds to your sending attempts. If there is an entry in this log, then you may need to contact NowSMS technical support at nowsms@nowsms.com for further troubleshooting suggestions. If there is not an entry in this log that corresponds to your sending attempt, then either the MMSC message server URL is not configured properly, or the path to the MMSC message server via the WAP gateway is not clear, and you should refer to the troubleshooting steps in Send an MMS Message.