email -> text message?

Is it in general possible for a computer email to be sent to show up as
a textmessage? Do you need some extra-few-dollars-a-month service for
that? (phone-to-phone text messaging works fine) If there is a way,
is there a way to disallow all incoming textmessages from computers
unless they come from a restricted sender list, or have a magic password,
or some other way of avoid text message spam?

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I don't see why you can't use the message forwarding feature of your email
package to do that. For example, in Outlook you can set up message
forwarding to send messages to the same address you use for text messaging.
I'm not sure what it will do with HTML formatted messages or messages with
attachments.

<[email protected]> wrote in message news:dfQHb.690318$Fm2.596027@attbi_s04...
> Is it in general possible for a computer email to be sent to show up as
> a textmessage? Do you need some extra-few-dollars-a-month service for
> that? (phone-to-phone text messaging works fine) If there is a way,
> is there a way to disallow all incoming textmessages from computers
> unless they come from a restricted sender list, or have a magic password,
> or some other way of avoid text message spam?

Does Outlook Express have this same feature?
B.

"Locutus Borg" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I don't see why you can't use the message forwarding feature of your email
> package to do that. For example, in Outlook you can set up message
> forwarding to send messages to the same address you use for text
messaging.
> I'm not sure what it will do with HTML formatted messages or messages with
> attachments.
>
> <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:dfQHb.690318$Fm2.596027@attbi_s04...
> > Is it in general possible for a computer email to be sent to show up as
> > a textmessage? Do you need some extra-few-dollars-a-month service for
> > that? (phone-to-phone text messaging works fine) If there is a way,
> > is there a way to disallow all incoming textmessages from computers
> > unless they come from a restricted sender list, or have a magic
password,
> > or some other way of avoid text message spam?
>
>

Brian,
I think so. Look under Tools | Message Rules | Mail.

"Brian Oakley" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Does Outlook Express have this same feature?
> B.
>
> "Locutus Borg" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > I don't see why you can't use the message forwarding feature of your
email
> > package to do that. For example, in Outlook you can set up message
> > forwarding to send messages to the same address you use for text
> messaging.
> > I'm not sure what it will do with HTML formatted messages or messages
with
> > attachments.
> >
> > <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:dfQHb.690318$Fm2.596027@attbi_s04...
> > > Is it in general possible for a computer email to be sent to show up
as
> > > a textmessage? Do you need some extra-few-dollars-a-month service for
> > > that? (phone-to-phone text messaging works fine) If there is a way,
> > > is there a way to disallow all incoming textmessages from computers
> > > unless they come from a restricted sender list, or have a magic
> password,
> > > or some other way of avoid text message spam?
> >
> >
>
>