XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.sys.mac.system, comp.mobile.android   
   From: marion@facts.com   
      
   On 2 Apr 2025 19:17:58 GMT, Frank Slootweg 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)).   
      
   I'm in the USA and while there are essentially only 3 major carriers, all   
   of whom have an SMS-to-Email gateway, I agree with Frank that it's almost   
   unused here (as far as I can tell from my own personal experience).   
      
   As for RCS, I haven't experienced anyone in the USA who communicates with   
   me having anything to do with it - but I'm using PulseSMS as my default   
   SMS/MMS app, and it doesn't have RCS so I probably wouldn't even know it.   
      
   My only issue is when I receive a video from iPhone users, I have to switch   
   those iPhone users to WhatsApp (which most of them have) to be non blurry.   
      
   I suspect (hope?) that when RCS/encryption arrives, things will improve.   
   --   
   It's always Apple owners who can't ever interoperate with anyone else.   
      
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