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Does anyone know how I can receive an MMS through Twilio? I checked online and found software to receive an SMS but not an MMS, since it’s a new feature. The number I have is MMS-enabled. If I can receive it through an app, on email, anything would help.

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  1. Twilio evangelist here.

    As long as your Twilio phone number is MMS-enabled you can receive MMS messages with it. Twilio currently offers MMS-enabled Twilio phone numbers in Canada and MMS-enabled Twilio short codes in the US.

    If someone sends an MMS to your Twilio phone number or short code, Twilio is going to make an HTTP request to the Messages URL you have configured for your phone number. That request is going to include a bunch of parameters:

    https://www.twilio.com/docs/api/twiml/sms/twilio_request

    For each media element included in the MMS message, the Twilio request will include a MediaUrl parameter that has a URL you can use to grab the media element.

    Hope that helps.

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  2. If you have a twilio number, and it is indeed MMS enabled, you should first verify that it is actually getting where its supposed to go. Not only does the twilio number need to support MMS, whatever number you are sending needs to as well.

    After you send a test MMS to your twilio number, log into you account and check the message log – if you don’t see it there, one of your numbers isn’t supported.

    https://www.twilio.com/user/account/log/sms

    if you can’t see the message in the log, no code is going to help.

    If the message is indeed making it to your twilio number, then this is the relevant documentation on how to receive MMS in your app:

    https://www.twilio.com/docs/api/rest/message

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