February 13, 2009 (PC World)
Drewziob asked the Answer Line forum how he can email a text message to a cell phone.
Each major cell phone carrier has a domain name for just this purpose. And each cell phone's number--with the area code but without parenthesis or dashes--is the first part of an email address.
For instance, Verizon's texting domain is vtext.com. If my phone number was 415-555-1234 (which it isn't), you could text me by emailing to 4155551234@vtext.com .
Here are some other domains:
AT&T: @txt.att.net
Alltel: @message.alltel.com
CellularOne: @mobile.celloneusa.com
Cingular: @cingularme.com
Nextel: @messaging.nextel.com
Omnipoint: @omnipointpcs.com
Qwest: @qwestmp.com
Sprint: @messaging.sprintpcs.com
T-Mobile: @tmomail.net
Virgin Mobile: @vmobl.com
My thanks to the folks at All Things Marked for providing me with that list.
What about going the other way? Just enter the email address into your phone.
Read the original discussion at http://forums.pcworld.com/message/182764.
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