Beta support: MMS on chatty/mmsd on Modem Manager - help/testing wanted!

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Also, something interesting I have learned about the MMS specification. Contrary to how it is widely used today, you can send almost any file over MMS. It handles PDFs, Word Docs, even arbietrary binary files (I have sent and recieved these all of these over MMS!). Android messaging on the other hand.....does not like being sent some of these as I have found out. I am wondering if the reason is partically if I am not sending SMIL with my MMS, but I have not figure dout SMIL for chatty. Android Messaging will send them, but it seems to not like attempting to display/save them.

That is indeed, interesting.  Personally I am of the mind to speculate something along the lines that they would rather you use their "cloud" services, instead of making something available that might otherwise be supported by the protocol.  But this is just one of many, many, many reasons why we I feel we are ripe for an actual, no-BS, GNU/Linux phone.  As then we will no longer be beholden to the current duopoly and their "business models."

An additional aside, our experience here (with MMS in particular) has been so bad, that I set up my own XMPP server on a small Single Board Computer and it has been running absolutely flawless for some years now.  More reliable in fact, than our carriers' MMS which are quite often delayed, if they ever arrive at all.

So I cannot help but wonder, how much an improved client might improve the situation.