When I send a text from my imac friend with verizon receives duplicate text
When I send a friend a text from my imac she receives it in duplicate. She has Verizon. But when I send her a text from my Verizon phone she only gets it once. Any ideas why?
Hi,
Are you using Mail to send these text messages? My experience has been that Mail always sends the text of a message twice. I don't use Mail but my wife and father do, and their messages are often repeated. I think. Maybe there's some way to avoid this by using particular settings in Mail. I would recommend turning off any fancy font settings, and not putting in any attachments, and see if the messages are still duplicating the text. I'm going to try that myself when I get a chance.
Andy
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