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March 27, 2013

Send Text Message Through Email

Posted on March 27, 2013  •  1 minutes  • 213 words
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If you’d like to send a TXT message through email rather than use a SaaS application, such as Twilio, you can send SMS messages through SMTP.

Below is a list of some common gateway email handlers to turn emails into TXTs. Just switch out the default phone number for the one you want to communicate with:

AT&T
1234567890@txt.att.net

Metro PCS
1234567890@mymetropcs.com

T-Mobile
1234567890@tmomail.net

U.S. Cellular
1234567890@email.uscc.net

Cricket Wireless
1234567890@sms.mycricket.com

Sprint
1234567890@messaging.sprintpcs.com

TracFone
1234567890@mmst5.tracfone.com

Verizon
1234567890@vtext.com

If you know any handlers I haven’t included, please leave a note in the comments section below, and I’ll update the above list as soon as possible. Thanks

Some caveats to this transaction method:

 

Twilio

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Try out Twilio. They offer a free plan that includes 200 messages to send each month and maintains a series of APIs that are easy to use and open source.

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