SMS messages mixed with email

Mix SMS and email

You can send a text message using any of the forms. When sent to a mobile phone, only the data is sent. Here, we send the same message to an email address and a mobile phone (see below for how to do this). On the iPhone (at right), the message is displayed as soon as the user activates the screen, insuring the message is not lost. When sent to an email address (lower left), the message is sent in its entirety. This is an expansion of the "to:" destination address from a form. The destination email address can be typed in directly or selected from a list of most recently used (MRU) addresses. Entry 3 shows sending to an email address only. Entry 2 shows sending only to a mobile phone SMS gateway. The telephone number of recipient is 999-888-7777 (for illustration, not an actual phone number) and the Wireless operator is Verizon. The gateway domain for Verizon is vtext.com. The punctuation must be removed from the phone number and prepended to the domain: 9998887777@vtext.com. Entry 1 sends to both an email address and to the SMS gateway. The addresses are separate by a comma.

Each wireless carrier has an email to SMS gateway. An email sent to the gateway address is converted to a text message. The general form of the email address is the mobile telephone number of the subscriber (numbers only), the "@", and the domain name of the gateway.

TelephoneMessagePad chooses the appropriate formatting for email and SMS destinations: HTML (default) for email and text for SMS. SMS has a 160 character limit and TelephoneMessagePad packs the message to fit. That packing includes the URL of the ticket so that the mobile recipient can open the ticket in a web browser and see the entire unabbreviated message.

SMS Gateways

There is also a comprehensive gateway list of over 100 gateways if you do not find the wireless operator here.

If you do not know the carrier the fonefinder site can guess the carrier provided you know the mobile phone number. Fonefinder works by using a database of phone number blocks assigned to each carrier. Because individual phone numbers are portable, the results are not accurate for phone numbers which have changed from the initial carrier but Fonefinder is still helpful in many cases.

Tips

• Custom Forms
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  • Standard Interface
    
  • Advanced Interface
    
  
  
• facebook portal
  
• iPhone and Android
  
• Simple To-Do list
  
• history-browser
• sms-instructions