title: Email to SMS Gateway Verizon iPhone response goes to phone only
body: <p>I'm trying to send <strong>SMS</strong>' via email (so for example send an email like <code>9175550123@vtext.com</code>). The recipient gets an SMS from <code>me@gmail.com</code> (not my phone number). </p>
  
  <p>In my <code>settings -&gt; Messages -&gt; Send &amp; Receive</code>, I have 2 Addresses: phone number <code>8471234566</code> and my email <code>me@gmail.com</code>. It also happens to be that <code>me@gmail.com</code> is my Apple ID.</p>
  
  <p>When the recipient also has a Verizon iPhone, if he responds, that response goes only to my phone (not as a response to my email), and on his phone it's sent as an iMessage. </p>
  
  <p>This does not happen when one user is me (Verizon iPhone) and the other user is AT&amp;T iPhone. </p>
  
  <p>Additionally: if I remove <code>me@gmail.com</code> from the Send &amp; Receive settings on the iPhone (so it just has my phone under Send &amp; Receive), when the recipient replies the SMS is not delivered to either my phone or my email...</p>
  
  <p>Any thoughts? If I send an SMS to <code>9175550123@vtext.com</code> from <code>me.junk@gmail.com</code>, which is not the Apple ID of any phone (or is associated with any phone), responses from the recipient do indeed go to my email. Even if I add <code>me.junk@gmail.com</code> as an address in my iPhone <code>settings -&gt; Messages -&gt; Send &amp; Receive</code>, I can't reproduce the problem: responses from the recipient still go to email as they should (and are sent as regular Text Messages not iMessages from <code>9175550123</code>'s iPhone).</p>