Good point about the mobile web browser. But what we have going on is several people that don't ever check their emails but text constantly all day long. So never respond to email and miss notifications. As you can probably guess, this is the younger members of our group.
On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 2:30 PM, Shal Farley
<shals2nd@...> wrote:
Michael,
> So the quick answer to this is that it works. If you add someone as a
> user through the normal process but use phonenumber@carrier then they
> will receive text messages when a post is made.
Excellent!
> However, you cannot reply via text, it gets rejected by Groups.io. I
> assume because it's missing all the email headers.
The key is the "From" address. It must match the subscribed address or else the reply will be rejected as "not a member" (unless your group allows non-members to post). If that's what happened you should see a "Non-member" entry in the group's Message Activity log for the attempt.
If you find that entry make note of the exact email address reported. You can (when logged in under the subscribed address) add that sending address as an Email Alias on the Subscribed address' Account page, Login section. It is under the "Advanced Settings" expander at the bottom.
If the email gateway always sends replies with that same address then those should post as if posted under the subscribed address.
> You can, however, click on the "View/Reply Online" link and reply in a
> mobile web browser.
If your device has a mobile web browser it may be fair to ask why you're bothering with SMS rather than just using an email service. But to each his own.? ;-)
Shal
