I am wondering what the standard tool is for sending and receiving SMS and MMS on a device that does not have a SIM card in it.

Is there some tool that can do it natively? Is there a specific carrier that is commonly used for this? Is there some sort of selfhosted service that bridges it to email, and if so do I need to put a SIM card in my server?

Bonus points if I can do it within Emacs.

  • Max-P
    4•1 month ago

    Most VoIP providers have either an HTTP API you can hit and/or email to/from text.

    Additionally, some carriers do offer an email address that can be used to send a text to one of their users but due to spam it’s usually pretty restricted.

      • Max-P
        3•1 month ago

        Example of what?

        VoIP provider: voip.ms

        They support like 5 different ways to deal with SMS and MMS, there’s options. https://wiki.voip.ms/article/SMS-MMS

        Carrier that accepts texts by email: Bell Canada accepts emails at NUMBER@txt.bell.ca and deliver it as SMS or MMS to the number. Or at least they used to, I can’t find current documentation about it and that feels like something that would be way too exploitable for spam.