Feature enhancement: SMS/MMS Delivery Failure notices

Holy cow Batman can you say progress?! Discovered this by accident
just yesterday.

Cingular has made a subtle yet important improvement in their text
messaging services (SMS/MMS). If you send a message to an invalid
email address, you now receive notification of the delivery failure!

As you probably know, text messenging allows you to send short messages
directly to another person's phone. It's also the underlying service
that's used when paging someones cell phone. What you may not have
known is SMS/MMS can gateway to the Internet and send messages to an
email address. It requires special syntax in the message, but by
using text messaging to send email, you can forego purchasing your
wireless carrier's email service.

In the past, the only downside to using text messaging for this purpose
was lack of delivery failure notices. So, you never really knew if
your message was delivered or not. Now, you do. It's great news for
those of us who like a little certainty with our technology.

Jim

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Jim:

Where can one find the syntax that can used in a text message to cause an
email to be generated?

Thanks.

Bob

<[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Holy cow Batman can you say progress?! Discovered this by accident
> just yesterday.
>
> Cingular has made a subtle yet important improvement in their text
> messaging services (SMS/MMS). If you send a message to an invalid
> email address, you now receive notification of the delivery failure!
>
> As you probably know, text messenging allows you to send short messages
> directly to another person's phone. It's also the underlying service
> that's used when paging someones cell phone. What you may not have
> known is SMS/MMS can gateway to the Internet and send messages to an
> email address. It requires special syntax in the message, but by
> using text messaging to send email, you can forego purchasing your
> wireless carrier's email service.
>
> In the past, the only downside to using text messaging for this purpose
> was lack of delivery failure notices. So, you never really knew if
> your message was delivered or not. Now, you do. It's great news for
> those of us who like a little certainty with our technology.
>
> Jim
>


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I have always been able to send a SMS as an e-mail. I have also gotten
failure notices for sending to an incorrect address or wireless #. Its not
new here in the North East.


"Bob L." <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Jim:
>
> Where can one find the syntax that can used in a text message to cause an
> email to be generated?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Bob
>
> <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> Holy cow Batman can you say progress?! Discovered this by accident
>> just yesterday.
>>
>> Cingular has made a subtle yet important improvement in their text
>> messaging services (SMS/MMS). If you send a message to an invalid
>> email address, you now receive notification of the delivery failure!
>>
>> As you probably know, text messenging allows you to send short messages
>> directly to another person's phone. It's also the underlying service
>> that's used when paging someones cell phone. What you may not have
>> known is SMS/MMS can gateway to the Internet and send messages to an
>> email address. It requires special syntax in the message, but by
>> using text messaging to send email, you can forego purchasing your
>> wireless carrier's email service.
>>
>> In the past, the only downside to using text messaging for this purpose
>> was lack of delivery failure notices. So, you never really knew if
>> your message was delivered or not. Now, you do. It's great news for
>> those of us who like a little certainty with our technology.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>
>
> --
> I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users.
> It has removed 2769 spam emails to date.
> Paying users do not have this message in their emails.
> Try www.SPAMfighter.com for free now!
>
>

The following works for me on Cingular service. I have heard Cingular
uses different gateway codes for different parts of the country, but
111 seems to work most places.

If this message appears poorly word-wrapped, pardon the confusion. I'm
still trying to figure out how to post these messages correctly.

Jim


SMS
*****
To: <SMS gateway code for Cingular>
Body: <destination email address>() <mssg text>

Example:
To: 111
Body: [email protected] (What's up?) Hi, how are you?

Be aware, the parens act as delimiters for Subject Line text. The
parens themselves are required, but you don't have to include text.
Just means the mail message will display no subject line.


MMS
******
Syntax:

To: <destination email address>
Subj: <subject>
Body: <mssg text>

Example:

To: [email protected]
Subj: What's up?
Body: Hi, how are you?

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Bob L. wrote:
> Jim:
>
> Where can one find the syntax that can used in a text message to
cause an
> email to be generated?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Bob
>
> <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > Holy cow Batman can you say progress?! Discovered this by accident
> > just yesterday.
> >
> > Cingular has made a subtle yet important improvement in their text
> > messaging services (SMS/MMS). If you send a message to an invalid
> > email address, you now receive notification of the delivery
failure!
> >
> > As you probably know, text messenging allows you to send short
messages
> > directly to another person's phone. It's also the underlying
service
> > that's used when paging someones cell phone. What you may not have
> > known is SMS/MMS can gateway to the Internet and send messages to
an
> > email address. It requires special syntax in the message, but by
> > using text messaging to send email, you can forego purchasing your
> > wireless carrier's email service.
> >
> > In the past, the only downside to using text messaging for this
purpose
> > was lack of delivery failure notices. So, you never really knew if
> > your message was delivered or not. Now, you do. It's great news
for
> > those of us who like a little certainty with our technology.
> >
> > Jim
> >
>
>
> --
> I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users.
> It has removed 2769 spam emails to date.
> Paying users do not have this message in their emails.
> Try www.SPAMfighter.com for free now!