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From: Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm>
Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android
Subject: Re: RCS messaging
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2025 11:23:20 -0700
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On Tue, 1 Apr 2025 22:49:02 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote:
> On 2025-04-01 21:19, Stan Brown wrote:
> > Android 15, Google Pixel 8a, Google Messages and Google's camera app
> 
> moto g52 and moto g62, Android 13 both.
> 
> > [quoted text muted]
> > Bad -- None of these happened till I turned RCS chats on:
> > 1. When I enclose a photo in a text, text and photo are transmitted
> > as two separate messages. The same happens when someone encloses a
> > photo in a message to me: it's two separate messages.
> 
> Not here.
> 
> 
> > 2. When I forward a message that I received via Verizon's email-to-
> > text feature, and it contains a photo, the photo is queued for
> > forwarding but the text is discarded.
> 
> No Verizon here, so can't replicate.

You do know that pretty much every carrier maintains a way to send an 
email to a particular phone number?(*)  It's not just Verizon. (I 
have Visible, but the email-to-phone thing is the same because 
Visible uses its corporate parent Verizon's network.) 

(*) "Email to MMS" or "Email to text" are good searches. My personal 
fave is this one:
> https://community.sinch.com/t5/UCaaS-Admin-Portal/Sending-emails-to-SMS-or-MMS/ta-p/17339>

-- 
Stan Brown, Tehachapi, California, USA         https://BrownMath.com/
Shikata ga nai...