Been trying to work out some kinks with trying to post Sprint Picture Mail on my blog, and I must say, Sprint is trying to do everything they can to prevent it. Why? I have no idea. They can’t seem to make a regular email with an attachment of the small 2KB photo with it to make it simple. No. You pay 15 bucks for PCS Vision and you have to send “a link” to whoever you want to send the photo to. The person you invited then has to click on the link to be redirected to a special Sprint site to view the photo. I think its just a bunch of baloney. Sprint would actually save bandwidth if you could just send the photo, instead they make all the people go to a Sprint site full of Sprint ads.

As far as the script goes, I simply email the pictures to an address that can be checked from my blog software. Then a quick little script runs and parses out the image file and posts it in the blog. It would be great if I could set it up to check automatically every few minutes for a new picture, and then add it, but I am having problems getting the cronjob to run the PHP script correctly. So it halfway works, its just that every time I want to post the pictures after I email, I have to navigate to a special php page to run the script.

At least its a start, and I have been trying to get it to work for the past couple of days, and I am getting tired of fiddling with it, so its good enough for now.

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