Re: Email from IBM i to Verizon text manager

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On 3/5/2026 12:02 PM, Brad Stone wrote:

Ask Verizon. I think AT&T already phased it out.

On Thu, Mar 5, 2026 at 10:41 AM James H. H. Lampert via MIDRANGE-L <
midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:



On Mar 5, 2026, at 10:11 AM, Brad Stone wrote:


Keep in mind these email to text services are being phased out.



Why? I should think that if anything, there *ought* to be a unified
email-to-text portal that covers *all* cell phone providers. There's
certainly no technological reason why not. If there were, then I
probably wouldn't be getting so many spam-texts. (While making it
generally known that I don't tolerate spam-texts has slowed last year's
torrent to a trickle, that doesn't change the fact that there was a
torrential flood of them.)

On 3/5/26 8:27 AM, Brad Stone wrote:


What I don't get is why does it have to be a text? My phone beeps
when I get an email as well as a text. :)



Not everybody has a full-on smartphone. Or wants one. Or is prepared to
tolerate having one foisted upon them. And not everybody has an email
provider with which their phone is on speaking terms. I, for one, have a
clamshell, and while it *does* have an email reader, that email reader
won't talk to the email provider that I've had for over a decade, so I
have to use my phone's *very rudimentary* web browser to access my
personal email provider's web-mail interface.

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