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Topic: Verizon or gmail bouncing email to phone
Posted By: 2oldman on 06/19/21 08:09am

In the last week my Verizon/gmail is unable to send emails to a phone number at vtext.com

Anyone else seeing this?

* This post was edited 06/20/21 07:24am by 2oldman *

Posted By: 2oldman on 06/19/21 07:10pm

Ok, do me a solid. If you have a Verizon cell phone, use your computer -based email to send a brief message to [email protected]

thanks

Posted By: esyers on 06/19/21 07:29pm

Tried sending it 5 minutes ago. Haven't received anything yet on the phone.




Posted By: Rover_Bill on 06/19/21 10:15pm

I sent a message to my Verizon phone and it worked fine!

Posted By: 2oldman on 06/19/21 11:02pm

Thanks. Looks like it works for some. Weird. What email are you guys using? Mine is Gmail. I'm not sure if it's that or Verizon

Posted By: MrWizard on 06/20/21 01:48am

I tried from gmail using my tablet, and received a text on my phone from Google voice with the text from the gmail I sent to my phone number

So it's working for me, I haven't used Vtext email option in about 9 years, maybe more, maybe 11 years, I forgot it was even available

I can explain it to you.
But I Can Not understand it for you !
....

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Posted By: esyers on 06/20/21 07:00am

I used gmail from a desktop, never got the message on my phone.

Posted By: 2oldman on 06/20/21 07:21am

esyers wrote:

I used gmail from a desktop, never got the message on my phone.
and you may get an error message later.

Posted By: 2oldman on 06/20/21 07:50am

I used outlook and the message went through fine. Looks like it's Gmail. I've sent a screen shot of the error messages to their Feedback. Hope somebody reads it.

Posted By: pasusan on 06/20/21 09:09am

2oldman wrote:

Ok, do me a solid. If you have a Verizon cell phone, use your computer -based email to send a brief message to [email protected]

thanks
Well, how cool is that? It just worked for me using AOL mail (don't laugh!)

This could come in handy... [emoticon]

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Posted By: 2oldman on 06/20/21 09:45am

pasusan wrote:

This could come in handy... [emoticon]
I use it for sending a grocery list to my phone, and conversing with the SO to her phone from my computer.

Now I'm wondering if people can do this to other providers like ATT/Sprint etc from gmail.

Posted By: ncscz on 06/20/21 10:27am

Address for US Carriers

Alltel Wireless
[email protected] (SMS & MMS)
[email protected] (SMS)
[email protected] (MMS)

AT&T Wireless
[email protected] (SMS)
[email protected] (MMS)

AT&T Mobility (formerly Cingular)
[email protected]
[email protected]

Boost Mobile
[email protected]

Cricket
[email protected] (SMS)
[email protected] (MMS)

Metro PCS
[email protected]

Sprint (PCS)
[email protected] SMS)
[email protected] (MMS)
Sprint (Nextel)
[email protected] (SMS)
[email protected] (Rich Messaging)

Straight Talk
[email protected] (SMS)
[email protected] (MMS)

T-Mobile
[email protected] (MMS)

U.S. Cellular
[email protected] (SMS)
[email protected] (MMS)

Verizon
[email protected] (SMS)
[email protected] (MMS)

Virgin Mobile
[email protected] (SMS)
[email protected] (MMS)

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Posted By: esyers on 06/20/21 09:23pm

2oldman wrote:

esyers wrote:

I used gmail from a desktop, never got the message on my phone.
and you may get an error message later.


Give the man a cigar, you called it.

Posted By: 2oldman on 06/21/21 08:58am

It's funny.. I can send these message to my phone, and when they don't work, get a ton of error messages back, day after day, but nobody notices.

I can go to Amazon and browse for a generator, and soon my FB page will be deluged with ads from generator sellers.

Posted By: BarneyS on 06/21/21 02:59pm

Sent a message to my Verizon/Visible number from my computer using Gmail. Message came through fine on my Android phone via text message.
Barney

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Posted By: MrWizard on 06/22/21 12:31am

I did a email text to [email protected]
And it worked
I sent a test gmail email to a friend's AT&T cellphone number
(Using the info posted above)
And they received it

* This post was edited 06/22/21 01:41am by MrWizard *

Posted By: wa8yxm on 06/22/21 05:32am

Thank you .. Just sent myself a [email protected] (MMS)
message.. Worked. fine

There is a reason I am not a Verizon customer.. I won't bore you with the full story but ... Cuss-some-more-Service was invented by one of the companies that merged into Verizon.

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Posted By: 2oldman on 06/22/21 06:30am

The messages are starting to work, but they're being delayed anywhere from 20 minutes to many hours. Verizon is not responding.

Getting any help at all from Google is so far, impossible.

* This post was edited 06/22/21 08:24am by 2oldman *

Posted By: 2oldman on 06/22/21 11:57am

wa8yxm wrote:

There is a reason I am not a Verizon customer.. I won't bore you with the full story but ... Cuss-some-more-Service was invented by one of the companies that merged into Verizon.
Their customer no-service is pretty much that.

What I find perplexing is, does no one else but me, the end user, see this pile of errors? I mean, they have to be created somewhere, and nobody sees them? And help links that don't work..!

Posted By: Udicomo on 05/18/22 01:18pm

I just came across the same problem. Any fast solutions?

Posted By: Cristian123 on 05/18/22 03:44pm

This is why I switched to Boost Mobile. It runs on AT&T & T-Mobile and everything works great. Moreover, I can always call the boost mobile phone number (I found it on this website https://boost-mobile.pissedconsumer.com/customer-service.html) and solve any issue within a few minutes. No regrets.

* This post was edited 05/20/22 02:47am by Cristian123 *

Posted By: MrWizard on 05/22/22 09:28am

I wonder, for those of you that have problems with this form of communication, send from email to phone text,
Are you in your carriers designated coverage area ?
Or
Are you roaming,. Such as getting Verizon on Sprint tower or att on TMobile tower
Knowing this might help clarify the issue
Your phone should have and indicator, either on home screen or in settings
Also roaming can be turned of in settings/networks,
If in doubt, as a test temporarily turn off roaming , if you loose cell service, you are roaming on sn affiliate tower, not using your carrier owned tower,

* This post was edited 05/22/22 09:37am by MrWizard *

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