ok, I realise there are some smart cookies working on MMS support on the n900 however…I wonder what has been happening /will happen to all the MMS’s I have been sent since I got the n900?
I realise this is probably more of a network setting/thing but as I tried sending a MMS to my phone the other day, I didn’t get anything, not even a notification SMS to say not available etc. Similarly, the phone sending to ‘me’ does not receive any failed message so they must be going somewhere into the ether.

Anyway, If I install MMS support in further I wonder If I’ll open ‘the Pipe’ and get a backlog barrage 

I used to get 3 or 4 a week, times 13 weeks…… 

They go to your provider's servers, like all MMS, except they aren't downloaded to your device (because your device doesnt support it, yet)

After a week or a month or so your provider deletes them off of their servers, its your responsibility to download them and back them up before that happens. I don't know how to do this without a phone that can receive MMS.

So no, you wont get a barrage of MMS, you may get a couple though. The others will be lost.

The MMS stays in the phone companies server (for a couple days or so) until it is deleted. The phone does not recieve the MMS nor does it show a message of not receiving the MMS simply because it ignores the "recieve MMS?" message the phone company sends to the device to authenticate if the phone can receive the MMS....

Third party softwares may be able to allow the phone to receive/send MMS, its just a matter of time (hopefully) until one is fully developed...

You might want to look into this thread. There's an app for MMS currently in development. It certainly works, if a little rough around the edges just now. QAs someone losing content, you'd be a good person to test this app!

I had to disable the mms service on my settings page at my providers (Telia, Sweden) website to start recieving sms messages telling me that i got a mms waiting (and with a link)

maybe you can do something like that, or call your provider and tell them to remove mms service from your account.

/oxpo

I wish O2 in the UK would get around to doing this even when they have stated that they have this doesn't appear to be the case - things go into the great beyond!

Since N900 cant receive MMS, and Providers mostly dont care if you receive your message or not,they all go to /dev/null i guess.