How to send email to a cell phone
Yes, you can get email on your phone! All you need to know is your cell phone's email address.
Most carriers have "SMS gateways" which take email messages from the Internet and deliver them to their customers' cell phones as SMS text messages. The trick is that you need to know what carrier the recipient's phone is on -- it's not enough to know their phone number. That's because the carrier determines what the email address of the receiving phone is going to be. For example, Cingular phones' address are all "something@cingularme.com" while Verizon phones are "something@vtext.com."
Sound complicated? It's not. All you really need to do is find your carrier in the list below, and then use the pattern shown there to figure out your email address. If you want to send email to a friend's phone, just ask them which carrier they use, and off you go!
(Note: For each carrier, I'll include a link to a page with more detailed information on how SMS works with that carrier, how much it costs, and where you can find more information. In the list below, just click any carrier's highlighted name to find out more.)
Alltel
[10-digit phone number]@message.alltel.com
Example: 2125551212@message.alltel.com
AT&T Wireless (now part of Cingular)
[10-digit phone number]@mmode.com
Example: 2125551212@mmode.com
Boost Mobile
[10-digit phone number]@myboostmobile.com
Example: 2125551212@myboostmobile.com
Cingular
[10-digit phone number]@mobile.mycingular.com OR
[10-digit number]@cingularme.com
Example: 4152221212@cingularme.com
Nextel (now part of Sprint Nextel)
[10-digit telephone number]@messaging.nextel.com
Example: 7035551234@messaging.nextel.com
Sprint PCS (now Sprint Nextel)
[10-digit phone number]@messaging.sprintpcs.com
Example: 2125551234@messaging.sprintpcs.com
T-Mobile
[10-digit phone number]@tmomail.net
Example: 4251234567@tmomail.net
Verizon
[10-digit phone number]@vtext.com
Example: 5552223333@vtext.com
Virgin Mobile USA
[10-digit phone number]@vmobl.com
Example: 5551234567@vmobl.com
Note: If all this seems complicated, there's an easier way to send email to any phone, no matter what its carrier. Just address it to [10-digit phone number]@teleflip.com
Example: 2125551212@teleflip.com
More information on Teleflip
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to give me your comments, questions, or corrections.
# posted by Dylan @ 7/17/2006
# posted by Dylan @ 7/17/2006
Comments:
Beyond GSM does offer SMS, and it costs 8 cents/message
to send an SMS and 6 cents/message to receive one on
your Beyond GSM phone. However, I haven't been able to
find out if Beyond GSM phones have email addresses ...
I'm still searching though, and will post the
information when I find it!
Thank you for such simple and actually telling us what
our email should look like step by step
I wanted to send a picture of my children for my cell phone
and you helped make it possible for I am not tech smart
and mine is a simple phone just for basics
I wanted to send a picture of my children for my cell phone
and you helped make it possible for I am not tech smart
and mine is a simple phone just for basics
# posted by
: 8:42 AM, September 29, 2006
: 8:42 AM, September 29, 2006 With my children living out of state and not always
being able to get in touch with them teleflip.com is
wonderful! Thank you for making this connection for me.
# posted by
: 11:00 AM, October 12, 2006
: 11:00 AM, October 12, 2006 fyi, if the Cingular customer orignially had service via
AT&T, then the address is [10-digit phone number]@mmode.com
# posted by
: 11:50 AM, December 18, 2006
: 11:50 AM, December 18, 2006 Great web site for U.S. service providers SMS addresses,
but can someone explain what's the deal with sending an
email from a PC to an int'l cell phone. I want to send
an email to a cell phone based in the U.K. whose
provider is Orange. I've tried links that say they can
facilitate but to no avail. I went to the Orange web
site (www.orange.co.uk), but they aren't forthcoming.
Can you offer any advice? Thank you!
# posted by
: 9:30 PM, December 25, 2006
: 9:30 PM, December 25, 2006 Does anyone know how to set the sender field on the sms-email
gateways? I assume there is some header in the email
that can be set. THe problem is that when I send to
1234567890@tmomail.net from email, when the message
appears on the phone, the sender field has a short
number in it, like 512 or 5002, not a number that the
end person can reply to. I'd like to send from email and
set the reply to number to be my cell number. any
thoughts -- please email to tttt@biocontact.org
# posted by
: 2:53 PM, January 01, 2007
: 2:53 PM, January 01, 2007 Re Centennial Wireless: The email format may be
10digitnumber@cwemail.com, according to
this page
(however, I haven't tested this and don't know for sure.
Re Orange: I can really only cover U.S. carriers on this blog. If Orange's web site doesn't have a form for sending SMSes, I'm afraid you may be out of luck.
As for changing the sender field: Unfortunately, there's no way for you to do this. Many email-to-SMS gateways only handle one-way communication, so you can send an email to someone's phone via SMS, but they can't reply to you. That's why the gateway rewrites the sender field this way.
Re Orange: I can really only cover U.S. carriers on this blog. If Orange's web site doesn't have a form for sending SMSes, I'm afraid you may be out of luck.
As for changing the sender field: Unfortunately, there's no way for you to do this. Many email-to-SMS gateways only handle one-way communication, so you can send an email to someone's phone via SMS, but they can't reply to you. That's why the gateway rewrites the sender field this way.
Do you know anything about how different companies send
SMS? I say how you can do it with TeleFlip on your
website. Do they find the carrier for you? What about
companies like VeriSign?
Thank you, Andrea
Thank you, Andrea
Could you please find out mobi pcs's email address as
well? Its a original company in Hawaii...Ive been trying
to figure it out, but no one seems to put the info on
web, even on the website...
# posted by
: 4:58 PM, February 09, 2007
: 4:58 PM, February 09, 2007 RE: THe problem is that when I send to 1234567890@tmomail.net
from email, when the message appears on the phone, the
sender field has a short number in it, like 512 or 5002,
not a number that the end person can reply to.
SOLUTION: Using the original message received on the phone, reply to the SMS message and T-Mobile knows where the header came from and replies properly. At least that has been my expeience.
SOLUTION: Using the original message received on the phone, reply to the SMS message and T-Mobile knows where the header came from and replies properly. At least that has been my expeience.
I want to send message from website to cell phone, and I
am using php mail()
But it keeps saying it is from my server email address and I want it to say from webmaster@site.com
But it keeps saying it is from my server email address and I want it to say from webmaster@site.com
# posted by
: 4:36 PM, February 22, 2007
: 4:36 PM, February 22, 2007 Just fyi, ntelos's is <10-digit number>@ pcs.ntelos.net
Or, that's my friend's.
Or, that's my friend's.
# posted by
: 7:41 PM, March 04, 2007
: 7:41 PM, March 04, 2007 And what if you don't want to receive emails from people
as text messages that you have to pay for? Is there a
way to block this?
# posted by
: 1:29 PM, March 16, 2007
: 1:29 PM, March 16, 2007 i tried it and it worked, but it didn't send my
attachment? was it too big? Do i have to do something
special for attachments?
# posted by
: 6:19 AM, March 23, 2007
: 6:19 AM, March 23, 2007 SMS EMAIL ADDRESSES:
ALL: phonenumber@teleflip.com
Alltel: phonenumber@message.alltel.com
AT&T Wireless: (now Cingular): phonenumber@mmode.com
Boost Mobile: phonenumber@myboostmobile.com
Cingular: phonenumber@cingularme.com
Metro PCS: phonenumber@mymetropcs.com
Nextel: phonenumber@messaging.nextel.com
Ntelos: phonenumber@pcs.ntelos.net
Orange: phonenumber@orange.net
Sprint (now Sprint Nextel): phonenumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com
T-Mobile: phonenumber@tmomail.net
Verizon: phonenumber@vtext.com
Virgin Mobile: phonenumber@vmobl.com
ALL: phonenumber@teleflip.com
Alltel: phonenumber@message.alltel.com
AT&T Wireless: (now Cingular): phonenumber@mmode.com
Boost Mobile: phonenumber@myboostmobile.com
Cingular: phonenumber@cingularme.com
Metro PCS: phonenumber@mymetropcs.com
Nextel: phonenumber@messaging.nextel.com
Ntelos: phonenumber@pcs.ntelos.net
Orange: phonenumber@orange.net
Sprint (now Sprint Nextel): phonenumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com
T-Mobile: phonenumber@tmomail.net
Verizon: phonenumber@vtext.com
Virgin Mobile: phonenumber@vmobl.com
# posted by
: 11:24 AM, April 09, 2007
: 11:24 AM, April 09, 2007 This is a really wonderful site thank you soo much!!!
You saved me from having too call and explain too Sprint
what I wanted your the best!!
# posted by
: 12:23 PM, April 24, 2007
: 12:23 PM, April 24, 2007 Is there a more comprehensive list of other countries'
carrier sms gateways? for example, what would be the
address to send an SMS to someone in U.A.E using "Etisalat"
as the wireless provider?
thanks in advance
thanks in advance
# posted by
: 4:46 PM, April 24, 2007
: 4:46 PM, April 24, 2007 Here's a link that contains at last count 234 SMS
gateway email domains, not just in the U.S. either:
http://www.notepage.net/smtp.htm
http://www.notepage.net/smtp.htm
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