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Article #660Re: "SEND TEXT AS EMAIL" option
From: StrandElectric
Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 17:13
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.($1.20/MB) But I can't see how I'm supposed > to actually dispatch what's in the outbox. It just sits there from one > day to the next. How do I send it off? > -- > John Savage (my news address is not valid for email) >
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X-Google-Thread: fb718,f2c77efef8410f34 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gid5e83424db6,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit From: "StrandElectric" <Strand@dummyspit> Newsgroups: aus.comms.mobile References: <1105100000052.10May11$rookswood@suburbian.com> <94fqtjF6fmU1@mid.individual.net> <1105300232617.30May11$rookswood@suburbian.com> Subject: Re: "SEND TEXT AS EMAIL" option Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 03:13:09 +1000 Lines: 53 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6090 NNTP-Posting-Host: 220.244.214.147 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 220.244.214.147 Message-ID: <4de3d028$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au> X-Trace: dnews.tpgi.com.au!tpg.com.au 1306775592 220.244.214.147 (31 May 2011 03:13:12 +1000) Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!feed.news.qwest.net!mpls-nntp-03.inet.qwest.net!nntp1.phx1.gblx.net!nntp.gblx.net!nntp.gblx.net!nntp3.phx1!dnews.tpgi.com.au!tpg.com.au!not-for-mail