[rescue] OT: Cellphone SMS to email

Jeff Cole jeff at flambe.org
Tue May 25 20:48:06 CDT 2004


On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 08:37:37PM -0400, Sheldon T. Hall wrote:
> On my T-mobile phone, I can send e-mail, but it's cumbersome.  The actual
> e-mail address has to be pasted (or worse, typed) into the first line of the
> message, and the message sent to a special phone number.

With Nextel, it's just phonenumber at page.nextel.com or
phonenumber at messaging.nextel.com

Not sure about anyone else.

> Can T-mobile (or another provider) just make 9995551212 an alias for
> "someguy at example.com"?  Is it technically possible?  Already being done?

When I had Sprint service, I believe I had an alias setup that went to
my phone. Now, I just have an smtp alias that forwards to my phone.

Hope this helps

Jeff



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