Email to SMS

The SMTP (Email) to SMS gateway lets you send text messages from any email client — Outlook, Outlook Express, Lotus Notes, Eudora, Elm, Pine, Unix Mail and more — with no plugins or installation required. You simply send an email to a mobile number address at sms.world-text.com, for example 44777111222@sms.world-text.com.

Unlike the Bulk SMS via Email, which handles many recipients per email, this interface sends one message per email. Combined with our services it becomes bi-directional, allowing two-way communication between email and mobile phone.

Typical uses include:

• Forwarding email
• Office voicemail notification
• System operation alerts/alarms
• Personal communications
• Product promotion
• Employee communications

The service is available on pre-pay or monthly invoiced terms.

Quick Start

From your email client, create a new message addressed to a mobile number in international format: a UK number starting 077... has the leading 0 replaced with the UK dialling code 44, so 0777111222 becomes 44777111222.

To: 44777111222@sms.world-text.com
Subject: Your message subject (optional)

Your message text here.

Enter the subject and message as you normally would, then click send.

Examples

From Windows/Mac

Any desktop email client works. The example below shows a message sent from Microsoft Outlook by clicking the New button:

To: 44777111222@sms.world-text.com
Subject: Your message subject (optional)

Your message text here.

Remember 160 characters is one standard message limit; you can configure your account settings to allow longer, multipart messages online at http://www.world-text.com/account/emailgw/.

From Linux/UNIX

UNIX scripting makes it easy to send a message manually or, more usefully, automatically to the SMS gateway. A simple command line example:

echo "Server CRITICAL at `date`" | mail 447797000123@sms.world-text.com

With a subject line:

echo "My test message from UNIX" | mail 44777111222@sms.world-text.com -s "Test Subject"

If you require further help, UNIX experts are available to provide consultancy and help you develop your own scripts in almost all well-known languages, including bourne-shell, C, C++, Perl, PHP and Python.

From A Web Page/PHP

Send from your own web page using PHP’s built-in mail command:

function sendSMS( $mobile, $from, $message )
{
    mail( "$mobile@sms.world-text.com", "", "$message", "From: $from" );
}

sendSMS( "44777111222", "user@domain.com", "Hello this is a PHP SMS Test from World-Text using the SMTP Interface" );

Related Resources

• Bulk SMS via Email
• SMS to Email Guide
• Email to SMS Service Page
• SMTP Email Interface Specification (PDF, August 2011)