Is there a web application that will let me send SMS email? Some services don't seem to support receiving normal email.
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Only the cellular phone carrier can decide whether you can send SMS via email or not. Here's how to reach people on the most popular carriers:
T-Mobile: phonenumber@tmomail.net
Virgin Mobile: phonenumber@vmobl.com
Cingular: phonenumber@cingularme.com
Sprint: phonenumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com
Verizon: phonenumber@vtext.com
Nextel: phonenumber@messaging.nextel.comwhere phonenumber = your 10 digit phone number
If you have some programming skills, you could make use of an SMS API (such as ZeepMobile or Twilio) and build a database associating emails to an SMS phone number. Then you could send emails to "phonenumber@yourappname.com". The app would receive the email and redirect the message to the appropriate phone number.
phwd : if he meant this then you can use [Textie](http://textie.me/) on your iPhoneCasebash : Sorry, the question wasn't the clearest. [This](https://www.billmonk.com/about/sms) is what I meant by SMS emailGoodEnough : @Casebash, simply sending an email to that address doesn't work? Does the service reply with some kind of error message?Casebash : I'm not sure what happened, testing againCasebash : @GoodEnough: Actually it does seem to accept normal email, just really slow about it!From GoodEnough -
I wouldn't recommend using the email to SMS function most carriers provide for 3 reasons: (1) the email address seem to change over time (I've had mine change with my carrier a few times) and (2) some carriers charge to receive email to SMS messages and (3) it's annoying to read, since I know some of them require you to respond with "Read" or similar before seeing the who message.
I've been using Twilio for voice and I've been quite impressed. I'm sure their SMS system isn't much different. You also wouldn't need to have much programming knowledge, although it would be a good idea to provide security.
There is also a similar quesiton on Pro Webmasters.
From Darryl Hein
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