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HOW DO WE add identifying information about the sender in messages sent as text messages to cell phone email addresses?


Buckskin Heights
 

We have quite a few members who want to get GroupsIO emails sent to their phones as text? messages. We have successfully arranged this by using their cell phone email addresses to establish their accounts. So far, so good. However, when messages are sent to a cell phone account as texts, the texts arrive without identifying the original sender/poster of the message -- see the 2 examples below, one a text and the same message as an email. This message was originally posted online by member Rick S*** in response to another member's question.

QUESTION: Is there any way to add "sent by" information to the text message, so you don't have to access the website to see who is responding? Let me add that when you get a text from BigTent (with cell phone email accounts set up as in GroupsIO), the text message gives the sender information in the message header the same way it comes as an email. Thanks for any advice you can give us.

GroupsIO TEXT MESSAGE EXAMPLE (with no mention of Rick S***):?

Re: [buckskinheights] What is the condition of the road?

Snow above the s curve on Otter, slush below the gate --> to wet conditions



SAME MESSAGE RECEIVED AS EMAIL with Rick's name/email included:

Rick S*** RickS***@***.com via groups.io?

7:13 AM (8 hours ago)

to buckskinheights

Snow above the s curve on Otter, slush below the gate ---> to wet conditions

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The Text msg client will typically have a way to show details/info of the message and that is probably where you can find the email address of the sender.
[in Messages on Android, long press -> Info pops up a Message Details window that shows the email address of the sender.]
A screen shot of the text msg display would be helpful as I imagine all of them show something to identify the sender.
Groups.io is an email based messaging system so if you choose to have those messages sent to an email-to-sms gateway, you'll get what the gateway sends you and have to view it with a text msg app.
For more information on the mapping of fields from smtp email to SMS/MMS messages, see??(the gateway is supposed to follow this spec but who knows what the many gateways actually do...)
Toby