Re: RCS messaging

On 2025-04-02 21:17, Frank Slootweg wrote:

Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> 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.

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No Verizon here, so can't replicate.

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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.

 [...]

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Cheers, Carlos.