Email to SMS Gateway Information
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Email To SMS Gateway
Our Email Gateway service allows you to send text messages from any email client to a mobile device, the client can be anything from Microsoft Outlook on a Windows PC to a Perl or PHP script running a Unix host.
Three accounts configuration options are provided catering for nearly all requirements. Using the gateway couldn't be simpler, just compose your message of up to 160 characters (the limit of a text message) and send it to mobile@sms.world-text.com, then World-Text does the rest.
With our Email to SMS gateway you can effortlessly send text messages from your any email client, such as Microsoft Outlook/Outlook Express, Lotus Notes, Eudora, Elm, Pine, Unix Mail. Current uses include:
- Forwarding email
- Office voicemail notification
- System operation alerts/alarms
- Personal communications
- Product promotion
- Employee communications
- Notifications of new job prospects
- Taxi information service
- Property alert system
- Event announcements
- Fan list information
- Package tracking
No plug ins or installation is required. Simply use the software you already have on your computer. You simply send an email to mobile@sms.world-text.com. To try this service for free sign up for a trial account now.
If combined with our two-way service the
Email to SMS
gateway becomes a bidirectional service allowing two-way communication
between email
and mobile phone.
From Windows/Mac
Once setup using the service could not be easier. From your favorite email client simply select create a new message. In this example on Microsoft Outlook, this is achieved by clicking the New button on the top left of the application. |
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Now enter the subject and message as you would normally, but remember 160 characters is the limit. All that remains to be done is for you to click send. |
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From Linux/UNIX
UNIX offers very powerful scripting features making it very simple to send a message manually or more usefully, automatically to the SMS gateway. Since there are so many varied ways to send messages we will provide only one simple command line example here:
echo "Server CRITICAL at `date`" | mail 447797000123@sms.world-text.com
If you require any further help then we have UNIX experts available who can provide consultancy to help develop your own scripts or programs in almost all well known languages including, bourne-shell, C, C++, Perl, PHP and Python.
From A Web Page/PHP
If you want to send messages from your own web page, then this can be achieved simply in PHP by using the built in mail command. If you require a sample PHP script then please contact us and we will be happy to email one out to you.