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Wednesday, January 3rd, 2024 5:23 AM

how does a protonmail message sent to sms verizon show on my AT&T phone bill

If I use proton.me mail to send a text to sms verizon, how will that show up on my AT&T bill? As an SMS text message with the phone number?

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6 months ago

As far as you and your phone is concerned, you sent an e-mail.

As far as AT&T is concerned, you used some data, at best they know it went to a proton mail server so they could know it was an e-mail.  They'd not even see the recipient list to know it was going to a Verizon SMS e-mail gateway.

Verizon transforms the e-mail into an SMS message and would count it as a text going to that phone.

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