How to send a text message from your Email

Email to SMS Gateways

This is achieved by sending a short email to an Email SMS (Short Message Service) gateway. To send an email to someone's phone as a text message, compose an email, but rather than entering an email address in the recipient input field, insert the 10-digit phone number of the recipient with the appropriate @gateway address behind it.

We have a compiled a quick reference below, of the most common providers and their corresponding gateway addresses. There are two type of text messages on a phone, SMS (Short Message Service) and MMS (Multimedia Message Service). SMS Gateways send simple text messages and MMS gateways can send text, pictures and videos. Both are provided, where a service is available.

Note: SMS gateways break messages into a set of consecutive 160-character, or shorter. This may happen in the middle of words so its best to limit messages to 160 characters or less.

US Service Providers

US service require the full 10-digit telephone number (area + number)

Provider	Email to SMS gateway	MMS gateway
AT&T	insert 10-digit number @txt.att.net	@mms.att.net
Cricket Wireless	insert 10-digit number @sms.mycricket.com	@mms.cricketwireless.net
Sprint	insert 10-digit number @messaging.sprintpcs.com	@pm.sprint.com
T-Mobile	insert 10-digit number @tmomail.net	@tmomail.net
Verizon	insert 10-digit number @vtext.com	@vzwpix.com
Virgin Mobile	insert 10-digit number @vmobl.com	@vmpix.com

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