Technical “Pat Tricks” - Learn Something Cool in Ten Minutes (LSCITM)

 

Send text messages to cell phones from email

 

            You can actually send text messages to your cell phone from email!

·         You just have to know what carrier the recipient is using.

 

For example, to send a text message to someone who has cell service from Verizon,

 

·         If their phone number is 617-728-7425, the email address for their cell phone will be those numbers (without the hyphens) followed by @vtext.com

 

·         Therefore, send the email to the address

 

6177287425@vtext.com

 

·         The message that you send will show up on their phone

§         The subject line is surrounded by parentheses

§         The body of the message is shown as normal text

§         Note that any text message over 131 characters becomes two messages, so be brief

·         And remove any long email “signatures”

 

·         Other carriers have other email addresses.  The most popular ones are

§         T-Mobile             cellnumber@tmomail.net

§         Sprint PCS          cellnumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com

§         Cingular              cellnumber@mobile.mycingular.com

§         Cingular Blue      cellnumber@mmode.com    (formerly AT&T Wireless)  

§         Nextel                  cellnumber@messaging.nextel.com

§         Others can be found at

·         http://www.livejournal.com/tools/textmessage.bml?mode=details

·         If the above URL doesn’t work, try my page that lists email addresses for sending text messages to each cell phone carrier

§         Note that I have not tested them all, so please email me at pat@patrickomalley.com if you find inaccuracies

 

·         Pretty cool, and in less than two minutes, right?

 

www.617-patrick.com – Custom Computer Training, see sample video (website under development, but it does have some great content)

 

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