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> MMS and email use the same protocol with minor differences under the hood.

MMS uses SMTP "with minor differences"? I've never heard that.



It's an incorrect statement. An MMS is delivered by sending an SMS to the recipient phone and the phone fetching the message via http. Very unlike SMTP.




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