o2’s email system and it’s 3gp/avi email transcoding ‘feature’

Link: Tom on Identity » A Feature of O2 Mobile Email

I’ve come up against an interesting problem: O2’s email servers are stripping out attached 3GP videos, transcoding them to a lower quality (but higher file size) AVI, attaching the AVI and sending the email on to the recipient with a link back to O2’s website in certain situations

You have to wonder why — various rather silly technical reasons permitting — o2, and other operators, can’t just give people open internet access. Plain. Simple. Open. Internet. Like T-Mobile.

  • Barry-Jon
    I simply don't rely on my ISP to provide my email service. It's too important to me and not important enough for them. For them it is an afterthought, an "oh gosh we really ought to provide email too, everyone else appears to be doing so".

    Not that that excuses sloppy execution.
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