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Re: "SEND TEXT AS EMAIL" option

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From: StrandElectric
Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 17:13
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I was getting fed up with this interminable thread, but I must admit I'm now 
fascinated by this quest...

Has anyone got an Australian number? I have an old 6150.


"John Savage" <rookswood@suburbian.com.au> wrote in message 
news:1105300232617.30May11$rookswood@suburbian.com...
> John Henderson <jhenRemoveThis@talk21.com> writes:
>>A google search for "SMS to email" might find some operators
>>still offering the service.  There was one in the UK which was
>>free in the SMS -> email direction, and I used them on a few
>>occasions.  I've since lost the number, and they'd stick an
>>advert for somebody into the email in lieu of its being
>>user-pays.
>>
>>The text format was as per GSM 03.40:
>>
>>        [<to-email-address><space>]<message>
>
> I'm making progress. I found that UK number 447766404142 and it works.
> To the email, they append instructions for using the service. The email
> itself is a bit misleading as naive recipients are likely to just click
> on (R)eply because the From: address is yournumber@theSMSgatewaycompany
> but I'm sure that won't succeed in getting a free SMS back to your
> mobile.
>
> In the 7250i there are two paths to encountering the "email" option
> that I have been asking about. One is:
> MENU >Messages >Text Messages >Create SMS email
>
> The other is when I think I've created an SMS message and go to send it,
> I at times encounter an option something like to "send it as email". It
> catches me by surprise every time as I'm not expecting it, but I
> can't get it on demand so can't state what the exact wording is.
>
> Maybe my title here should have been SEND EMAIL AS SMS??
>
> I got the Optus site to SMS me configuration data for WAP, GPRS and mms.
> Alas, this  has not installed a magic number for an SMS email gateway.
>
> Now, I'm wondering whether I can send email using mms? I can create an
> mms message, I'm asked for an email address, and the mms gets stored in
> the outbox. It looks like it's going to be 1kB regardless of how little
> I type as the message. But that's okay, 1kB at the casual rate will cost
> only a cent or two I think.($1.20/MB)  But I can't see how I'm  supposed
> to actually dispatch what's in the outbox. It just sits there from one
> day to the next. How do I send it off?
> -- 
> John Savage                (my news address is not valid for email)
> 
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