So I snap a photo with a PagePlus-activated Verizon-branded handset and
send it for safekeeping to an email address I maintain. It arrives there in
good shape, seemingly from [My10Digits]@
mypixmessages.com. Great!
But: there's no DNS entry for that domain, 
mypixmessages.com. And perusal
of the headers of that MMS, as received at my email account, reveal as
hand-off domains involved in the transmission of that MMS message, only
vtext.com, 
vzwpix.com, and 
myvzw.com:
> Received: from 
njbrspamp3.vtext.com ([69.78.129.148])
>          by [MyMSP].net with ESMTP, Sun, 4 Nov 2012 15:45:17 +0000
> Received: from 
88.sub-66-174-71.myvzw.com (HELO 
m18.vzwpix.com) ([66.174.71.88])
>  by 
njbrspamp3.vtext.com with SMTP; 04 Nov 2012 15:45:17 +0000
> From: [My10Digits]@
mypixmessages.com 
So: what's really going on here? What's this mythical/virtual sender domain
mypixmessages.com doing? (BTW, [MyMSP] is my own munging of my Mail Service
Provider's actual server name, and [My10Digits] is my own munging of the
ten actual digits (area+exchange+FinalFour) of my cellular phone number.)
TIA. And cheers, -- tlvp
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