Email to text message?

[Mark Hertel]

Tracphone is phone#@cingularme.com <phone#@cingularme.com>




On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Randy Cole <randyokc-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> According to
> http://abwaters.com/2007/03/04/tracfone-and-sms-email-gateway/ , since
> Tracphone is reselling other services, you need to determine what system
> you are on, then use the method for that system. Years ago, Tracphone
> used to use AT&T wireless. You could try your phone number on all four
> carriers. It is also possible that the carrier turns off that feature
> for tracphone. You could also check your phone number at telcodata.us to
> find out what carrier owns it.
>
> Years ago (nine), I found that the carrier's web page sms interface was
> much faster/reliable than their email gateway.
>
> -Randy
>
>
> Palit, Nilanjan wrote:
> > I used have a pager with a data plan where I could send emails to my
> pager. This was awesome, because I added email-on fail-or-success capability
> to my jobs that run for a long time. It was really nice, since if my job
> that I submitted before I left work crapped out after a few hours due to
> some reason, I'd get a page telling me that; I could then log in at night,
> fix the issue & restart the job with the results waiting for me next
> morning. In other words, it improved my throughput.
> >
> > I no longer have that pager (it was company issued & I no longer have a
> "business need"). I do have a personal cell phone without a data plan (yes,
> there are still folks out there without Blackberries & iPhones), but can &
> do receive text messages on my cell phone.
> >
> > I Googled and found some email-to-text email addresses that purportedly
> will send your text message as email. I tried the one for my carrier
> (Tracfone) and sent an email to the address
> (<phonenumber>@<some_sms_host.carrier>) -- the message did not bounce back,
> nor did I ever get a text message on my cell. I kept the message
> deliberately short ("test") to make sure it was within reasonable text
> message size limits.
> >
> > So the question is: has anyone used this capability ever? If so, what
> cellphone carrier did you have? I'm trying to figure out whether there is a
> basic technical issue or a carrier-specific issue to not being able to do
> this.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -Nilanjan
> >
> >
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