Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Frank Slootweg Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: RCS messaging Date: 2 Apr 2025 19:17:58 GMT Organization: NOYB Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net EQ7VzRCTyRutb3JVi4gWDQnb5pJcM0Uoa/QLqM9nZbRME267Qf X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:tpx23d9qSP/faC+8BSukABoqXlM= sha256:V652Sml+HL2M7m0gMgzbld//LhbGWwunZmjW1FBy8x4= User-Agent: tin/1.6.2-20030910 ("Pabbay") (UNIX) (CYGWIN_NT-10.0-WOW/2.8.0(0.309/5/3) (i686)) Hamster/2.0.2.2 Bytes: 1958 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)). [...]