Email to SMS: Send text messages from your email
Introducing TextMagic's Email to SMS service, which can broadcast text messages to any mobile phone. Just click "Send," and you're there.
TextMagic's Email to SMS Service
E-mail is a revolutionary medium, but your messages only reach the intended recipients when they're sitting at their computers. With TextMagic's Email-to-SMS service, you can reach colleagues, customers, family, and friends at a busy trade show, in the field, or at the mall, for less than the cost of a phone call.
How does it work?
First, just sign up for a TextMagic account and purchase a block of messages. We offer generous discounts based on message volume, and these credits never expire.
Once you're set up, just send an e-mail message to [mobilenumber]@textmagic.com, like so:
Subject: [leave blank - no subject line necessary]
Hi. Do you want to meet after work? Sarah
If the person sends a response, you receive it at the e-mail address you specified when setting up your account. You can also reply to their response just as you would any other e-mail message. Simple!
For developers: Flexible Email to SMS communication for custom applications
If you develop data-driven applications, TextMagic's email to sms service can provide an easy way of reaching customers at a moment's notice. Logistics companies can alert the householder that their white goods are about to be delivered, server monitoring company sends out alert SMS for on call administrator:
Server DOWN alert: Example Website (www.example.org) is down at 10/15/2007 11:14:10PM.
"At Silverstring, we are alerted to tickets logged on our website via SMS. The tool is a great asset and allows us to quickly and efficiently respond to problems."
Email to SMS service features
- Sending email to sms text messages is simple. In the "To: field", just enter [mobilenumber]@textmagic.com. Enter your message as normal, and click Send.
- Can make use of distribution lists just like any other kind of e-mail. You can even send to a mixture of mobile phones and regular email addresses at the same time.
- Responses come back as e-mail. You can even reply to these replies and they will be sent as text messages.
- Common footers are removed automatically. But you can also signal the end of the text message with a row of hyphens.
- You can allow anyone in your company to send Email to SMS text message by allowing entire domain to send texts by adding *@example.org to your list of registered senders.
- If desired, you can specify a password when setting up your Email to SMS account that serves as an extra security measure. The correct password must then be typed into the Subject: field in order to be sent.
- Email to SMS can handle tens of messages per second. TextMagic uses dual redundant e-mail servers for high reliability.
- You can check delivery status for all your Email to SMS text messages online by logging in to TextMagic Online account
- Because it works with any application that can send e-mail, Email to SMS works incredibly well for setting up custom applications that can send out automated alerts. Your customers can act on emergent warnings and time-sensitive opportunities, all without your having to lift a finger.
- Email to SMS works with all languages
- It is easy to integrate to your existing business and back-office applications because most applications can send email.
Now, any application with the capacity to send e-mails can reach its increasingly mobile audience in seconds. The possibilities are endless. If you can send an e-mail, you can now reach people via Email to SMS text messaging no matter where they are.
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Customers using TextMagic
As an online retailer we use the TextMagic Email to SMS service to send alerts to staff if we have a system failure. Using TextMagic to turn our E-mails into SMS is by far the most straightforward way of notifying people to problems or failures and has never let us down yet.
