Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: RCS messaging Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2025 13:02:55 +0200 Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net Nm0zrPmWAJioyBNGnzUoRwkFB3P2t0cBu0bgKbEnNKRzVWc2WT X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:i2cAbrF4ebWSAygnuI1Fho/uaxg= sha256:LFOrsQhY0rM04qKHFfEQkloGhYcrJWN3mIUpx08iS6E= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2462 On 2025-04-02 21:17, Frank Slootweg wrote: > Stan Brown wrote: >> On Tue, 1 Apr 2025 22:49:02 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote: >>> On 2025-04-01 21:19, Stan Brown wrote: > [...] >>>> 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.) > > As Andy indicated, in Europe (i.e. for Carlos, Andy and me) - and > probably most of the rest of the non-US world - these e-mail-to-SMS/MMS > and vice versa gateways are a thing of the past. These days, people just > use modern IM (Instant Messaging) platforms (if they only know a > recipient's phonenumber, but not hir e-mail address). > > Also MMS is a thing of the past and SMS is mostly a thing of the past > (except for *receiving* SMS messages (for 2SV and other purposes)). MMS has never been a thing here, because it is expensive. But it still exists. SMS is used a lot for business purposes, I get them often. My bank sent me codes yesterday. > > [...] -- Cheers, Carlos.