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Why is T-Mobile mail-to-SMS gateway sporadically blocking GMail?
I use the mail-to-SMS gateway to text me at different times of the day. For example, to alert me to do something on my to-do list, or to tell me if some long-running program on my PC, such as a back...
Only 4 days ago? Mine started getting randomly delayed around the end of April. Changing the message content makes no difference. I send on average 10-12 different messages a day this way. Perhaps 1 or 2 in 10 messages in my experience is significantly delayed.
About maybe a week or so ago, I worked around this issue by writing an applescript that sends SMS messages via the messages app instead of the email to text service. No more delays. No more blocks. The only concern I have with it is that it likely requires my phone has a data or WiFi connection, which somewhat defeats the purpose, but my understanding is that SMS messages will soon require a data connection anyway since the 2G network infrastructure is being decommissioned.
