GMX Posted December 25, 2015 Share Posted December 25, 2015 If you send an email to a dead address, you almost instantly receive a message back from postmaster@daemon-mailer that it couldn't be sent. Now, at this time of the year, I generally phone them to say "Happy Xmas etc" or send a text if their phone is off/unanswered, to all those mates I haven't seen for a while. Quite a number of them have changed their numbers this year; which I didn't know So, in phoning them I get the message "this number is no longer in use" or in one case, a surprised stranger "Who wasn't John, didn't know John and besides, has had this number for 6 months now!" Some were texted rather than phoned, as they're more casual infrequent mates. Other than the phone acknowledging it's been sent, you have no idea if it's been received. Which led me to wonder, what happens to the texts, that can't be received because the number is no longer in use and hasn't been re-used yet - the now dormant numbers? There isn't an equivalent daemon mailer for SMS? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexp999 Posted December 25, 2015 Share Posted December 25, 2015 They'll just get deleted if the number is not attached to anyone's account. Even emails get deleted on most standard configurations. The bounce back will either be from your mail server or the one belonging to the domain you are sending to to say it could not find a route to deliver it to. There are RFC standards governing how mail servers should operate. I don't know if such a thing exists between mobile networks. But they obviously don't require the same level of error codes and fault finding traceability that email does. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMX Posted December 26, 2015 Author Share Posted December 26, 2015 They'll just get deleted if the number is not attached to anyone's account. Even emails get deleted on most standard configurations. The bounce back will either be from your mail server or the one belonging to the domain you are sending to to say it could not find a route to deliver it to. There are RFC standards governing how mail servers should operate. I don't know if such a thing exists between mobile networks. But they obviously don't require the same level of error codes and fault finding traceability that email does. That's interesting to know Alex :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ianb Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 Get whatsapp... Best way to text friends... And it's free. As for the text messages, I believe they linger around like ghosts in limbo....never to be read, never to be delivered... 'WOOOoooOOOoOooooooo' 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard150 Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 hells bells makes you wonder how many are out there unread Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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