Yep this is intentional to coerce into pay to play

On Fri, Jan 6, 2023, 10:07 AM Osborne, Richard via mailop <[email protected]>
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> We have been seeing this also for about the last week.  Our Verizon reps
> are telling us we need to pay for their EMAG (Enterprise Messaging) service
> to not get blocked.
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> Richard Osborne
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> *From:* mailop <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Dima Gomonyk
> via mailop
> *Sent:* Friday, January 6, 2023 6:28 AM
> *To:* [email protected]; [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [mailop] verizon email-to-text gateway mail deferred
> evening and night
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> I've been looking into this exact thing yesterday: Verizon's mail-to-sms
> gateways. Might have been going on a long time and I’m just noticing.
>
> No emails are accepted between 0:00 to 11:59 UTC time every day (the
> deferrals during that time frame are a somewhat misleading AUP#CNCT from
> Cloudflare)
> Emails are accepted only between 12:00 to 23:59 UTC time every day.
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> 12 UTC is 7 EST
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> So in my opinion this looks like an enforced “do not disturb” by Verizon
> to ensure SMS delivery only between 7am to 7pm EST time - during the
> "social hours" or whatnot. At least one other ESP I have contact with has
> confirmed they're seeing exactly the same time frames.
>
> I'm not a fan of the somewhat unclear bounce/deferral string they're
> returning but I don't think Coudflare is doing it on their own, it's too
> clean of a cutoff time - probably a Verizon rule.
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> On 01/06/2023 02:22, Zube via mailop wrote:
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> This is new as the past few days and rather odd.
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> Mail sent through the Verizon email-to-text gateway is fine during
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> the day when the relay is:
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> relay=vrz-mms.mx.a.cloudfilter.net. [52.37.233.84]
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> or
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> relay=vrz-mms.mx.a.cloudfilter.net. [35.169.108.175]
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> but starting somewhere around 5pm MST, mail sent to vtext.com,
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> vzwpix.com or mypixmessages.com is deferred:
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> relay=smtpin02-mms.vzw.a.cloudfilter.net. [52.33.196.155],
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> dsn=4.0.0, reply=421 vrz-ibgw-6003a.ext.cloudfilter.net
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> Mail sent from gmail makes it through.
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> Sometime around 5am the following day, a resend of the mail makes
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> it through again, but then it's hitting one of the two other servers
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> listed above.
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> I'm not the only one seeing this:
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> https://community.verizon.com/t5/Verizon-Messages/Vtext-messages-Severe-Delay/td-p/1240767/page/7
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> Going the other way, text-to-email seems to work fine and it arrives from
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> (in one test) twbgohaavzwvcmta-c-nk-x-00-sms-02.vtext.com [63.55.64.200]
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> after first going through m04.vzwpix.com (unknown [63.59.66.15])
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> If anyone from Verizon or cloudfilter.net is listening, please
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> advise.
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> Cheers,
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> Zube
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