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mmooss
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AT&T Email-to-Text Gateway Service Ending June 17
> MMS and email use the same protocol with minor differences under the hood.
MMS uses SMTP "with minor differences"? I've never heard that.
usr1106
3 months ago
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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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MMS uses SMTP "with minor differences"? I've never heard that.