>From a quick web search: It is not commonly known that a text message can be sent to a person's cell phone from a computer through an email account. Most cell phone carriers offer free Short Messaging Service, or SMS, and Multimedia Messaging Service, or MMS, gateways. These gateways convert emails into mobile phone messages. AT&T has a gateway for both SMS and MMS messages. By following a few steps, you can send short messages to someone's AT&T cell phone without stepping away from your computer.
Step 1 Acquire the 10-digit cell phone number--area code included--for the person receiving the message. Step 2 Log into your email account and draft the message you want to send. Draft the message in the same way you'd draft an email. AT&T allows 160 characters for an SMS message. The characters used in the subject line are included in the 160 characters. If the message contains more than 160 characters, the message will be split and the recipient will receive the message in more than one text. Step 3 Attach media files that you want to send. To attach a media file, use the attachment tool in your email program in the same way you'd attach files to an ordinary email. Media includes video, image and audio files. The size of media that can be accepted is cell-phone specific. Step 4 To send an SMS message through the AT&T network, type the recipient's 10-digit phone number before the carrier gateway @txt.att.net in the address window. To send an MMS message, use the carrier gateway @mms.att.net. For example, if sending an SMS message to cell phone number 1234567890, the "To:" line in the address bar will read "To:1234567...@txt.att.net<mailto:1234567...@txt.att.net>". If sending an MMS text to the same number, the "To:" line will read "To:1234567...@mms.txt.net<mailto:1234567...@mms.txt.net>". Step 5 Hit the send button. Sending a message to a cell phone is the same as sending an email to another email account. The recipient should receive the message on his cell phone in the form of a text. Richard "You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space, that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young." "Why, what did she tell you?" "I don't know, I didn't listen." -- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy On Dec 1, 2020, at 7:25 PM, Curtis Delzer <cur...@calweb.com> wrote: Does anyone have the answer to this one? I want to send some links to my kids who can help me search . . . thanks -- Curtis Delzer HS K 6 V F O Rialto, CA cur...@calweb.com -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/d21c9aea-0a91-c501-a52f-729e00115ca5%40calweb.com. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/MWHPR17MB1981DC1BC321AD5EF9EC5AE6B7F30%40MWHPR17MB1981.namprd17.prod.outlook.com.
