XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.sys.mac.system, comp.mobile.android   
   From: NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com   
      
   In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Wed, 2 Apr 2025 23:44:19 -0000 (UTC),   
   Marion  wrote:   
      
   >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).   
      
   I don't want to have to turn on my phone to send a text, so for the one   
   or two people I write to often, I've found the email address of their   
   phones, and I use email from the PC and they get a text.   
      
   Then when they reply to me with a text, I get an email.  It's very   
   convenient.   
      
   >As for RCS, I haven't experienced anyone in the USA who communicates with   
      
   They changed texting on my phone to RCS.  I use mintmobile on a Xiaomi   
   phone.  Not sure who made the change.   If the other party is also using   
   RCS, I think it would show on my phone whether or not they'd read my   
   text.  That would be good to know.  AFAIK prior to RCS no one provided   
   that info.   
      
   >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.   
      
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