How??: Sending text msg to phone from email

[its_me48]

I have a900 and want to use it as a pager (get text message instead of using another pager). I get message(s) from email address (from the application).
I addressed email(phone) as follows:
<phone_number>@messaging.sprintpcs.com ...also tried
<phone_number>@sprintpcs.messaging.com
and both do not work...
What am I doing wrong? Sprint support not helpful..

Thanks!!

[timul]

I have a900 and want to use it as a pager (get text message instead of using another pager). I get message(s) from email address (from the application).
I addressed email(phone) as follows:
<phone_number>@messaging.sprintpcs.com ...also tried
<phone_number>@sprintpcs.messaging.com
and both do not work...
What am I doing wrong? Sprint support not helpful..

Thanks!!I have done it many times. <phone_number>@messaging.sprintpcs.com is the correct format. Make sure you use the full 10 digit number. If you can't get it to work, send a text to the email address and just reply to it.

You can also send the text as a text message, rather than an email. You can do this from many different sites, including sprint.com.

[its_me48]

Thanks!! Got it to work....!!

[Jason]

fyi you can always send a text to number@teleflip.com they will automatically convert it to the proper format based on the carrier your emailing. I use that when texting friends from my PC.

[tygger]

Thanks Jason. That's good to cause sometimes I dont know the person's carrier that im trying to text.

[boowooh]

I use AIM to send txt msgs... 1+(area code and number)

[JoMamma]

I use AIM to send txt msgs... 1+(area code and number)

FYI people using this methond the correct format is
+1areacode & phone number [no spaces]

[billyman]

Actually it's <phone_number>@messaging.sprint.com

No "pcs" after sprint. Try that...


EDIT:
Oh S**t, just realized this is from 2004. That's what I get for replying to posts found in Google. SORRY.

[monkeyboy]

Actually it's <phone_number>@messaging.sprint.com

No "pcs" after sprint. Try that...


EDIT:
Oh S**t, just realized this is from 2004. That's what I get for replying to posts found in Google. SORRY.yes you *do* need the "pcs". What you don't want are any spaces, dashes, etc. Just the 10 digits: NUMBER@messaging.sprintpcs.com . There is a great list of all these SMS/email gateways at wikipedia, and the NUMBER@teleflip.com tip is good too:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_gateway

[Dwilli03]

fyi you can always send a text to number@teleflip.com they will automatically convert it to the proper format based on the carrier your emailing. I use that when texting friends from my PC.

Thanks this is going to come in handy

[twodaparty]

Thanks this is going to come in handy

The one bad thing about teleflip is that they only give you 100 per month I read. If you want unlimited they have a monthly fee I believe.

[josh33_unc]

Teleflip Sounds like what us BB users need. That is, if it supports pic mail

[ejbleendreeble]

I can't get Teleflip to work at all -- nothing ever arrives. In fact, I'm having all manner of problems with SMS. The only Web-based text messaging site that works to my Mogul is txt2day.com. The <number>@messaging.sprintpcs.com SMSs never arrive. And international texts sent by conventional means take up to a day to arrive.

[TvTech]

Question... does this cost money? I mean to have people e-mail you a text using the number@messaging.sprintpcs.com method?

[Xanius]

Question... does this cost money? I mean to have people e-mail you a text using the number@messaging.sprintpcs.com method?

It uses text messages.
The number@messaging address is the same one your phone uses when you send/receive a text message using the phone.

[TvTech]

It uses text messages.
The number@messaging address is the same one your phone uses when you send/receive a text message using the phone.

Wow cool! Thanks for the info. I had no idea that when a text message was sent that it used an e-mail address to be identified.