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How to fix significant delays of messages sent using the email to SMS service?
Sprint customer here. About a month or 2 ago, I started noticing that some messages sent using the email to SMS service can be significantly delayed. I've seen messages delayed up to (and possibly ...
I actually (think I) solved this problem by working around it. I switched from using email-to-text to an AppleScript that tells the messages app on macOS to send the SMS.
My only concern there is that my phone may need to have either a WiFi or data connection in order for the SMS to be sent, which makes it no better than an iMessage, but from what I’ve heard, the ability to send/receive SMS without a data connection is going away with the decommissioning of the 2G network anyway.
The service is largely unusable now.
I've been having delays of hours or days, and many messages never reach me. I've used different email addresses for different kinds of messages (home automation, etc.)
A week ago I created a new GMail address solely to use with email-to-text. Never used for anything else.
At first they got though, but even with a brand-new address they were delayed by hours. As the days went on I noticed I was seeing fewer and fewer. Now it appears that EVERY SINGLE MESSAGE is getting blocked.
This is nuts.
I don't have a Mac to work around this, and that shouldn't even have to be considered. T-Mobile has outsourced "spam" filtering to some 3rd-party and washed their hands of it. It's as if the service now doesn't even exist.
