For many reasons, many people may want to Email a text message to their cell phone. This might be used to notify themselves when their servers or websites go down– or simply to notify them of backup completion or a new sale. If you’re interested in receiving Emails when your servers or websites go down, you may want to check out Overseer, which does exactly that– it is able to send an Email to your phone when your website goes down.
If you’d like to Email a cell phone directly from your Email client, from a script, or something else, you can still do so quite easily. This has the benefit of being free for the person sending the email, but the recipient may still pay to receive the email as a text message. To send a text message to someone’s cell phone via Email, you will need to know their phone number and what cell phone carrier they use. To send a text message to a cell phone, simply send an Email to the appropriate Email address:
| AT&T | phonenumber@txt.att.net |
| Cingular Wireless | phonenumber@mobile.mycingular.com |
| Cricket | phonenumber@sms.mycricket.com |
| Metro PCS | phonenumber@mymetropcs.com |
| Nextel | phonenumber@messaging.nextel.com |
| Sprint PCS | phonenumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com |
| T-Mobile | phonenumber@tmomail.net |
| US Cellular | phonenumber@email.uscc.net |
| Verizon | phonenumber@vtext.com |
| Virgin Mobile | phonenumber@vmobl.com |
Remember to keep your EMails short, as the recipient will be receiving them on a small screen, and long Emails may be cut off or split between multiple text messages(and they’ll get charged for each one by their carrier). Also, if your carrier isn’t here, it may be here: Cell Phone Email Addresses.