Did you know you can send a text message to/from email? The trick is to address it correctly so the cellphone carrier’s gateway will route it to your friend’s cellphone as a text message. You’ll just need to know the cellphone number and which company is providing the cellphone service. In all cases, you can send an email from pretty much anywhere to be converted into a SMS text message by addressing an email to the 10 digit cellphone number as below. Do not use any dashes nor other punctuation other than the @.
In most cases, the cellphone SMS user can send a reply which will be routed back the way it came. Remember that these must be SHORT messages, because anything over 140 characters will either be truncated, or split into several messages (which is sort of annoying, and may incur multiple message charges to the cellphone user). Another tip: when sending from email, you should omit the subject line – it counts against the total character count and is unnecessary for text messaging.
Here are the email addresses to SMS for most cellular phone carriers. Note that some carriers use a different address for text or picture messages.
ATT text: 10Digit@txt.att.net
ATT picture: 10Digit@mms.att.net
Verizon text: 10Digit@vtext.com
Verizon Pictures: 10Digit@vzwpix.com
Boost Mobile: 10digitnumber@myboostmobile.com
MetroPCS 10Digit@mymetropcs.com
NexTel: 10Digit@messaging.nextel.com
Sprint: 10Digit@messaging.sprintpcs.com
Sprint pictures 10Digit@pm.sprint.com
T-Mobile: 10Digit@tmomail.net
Alltel: 10Digit@message.alltel.com
Cingular: 10Digit@mobile.mycingular.com
Cingular: 10Digit@cingularme.com
Cricket picture 10Digit@sms.mycricket.com
Cricket text 10Digit@sms.mycricket.com
i-wireless (Kroger): 10digitphone@iwirelesshometext.com
Ntelos 10DigitNumber@pcs.ntelos.com
Qwest: 10Digit@qwestmp.com
Simple Mobile: 10Digit@smtext.com
Virgin Mobile 10Digit@vmobl.com
Virgin Mobile pictures 10Digit@vmpix.com