Are you always sending SMS to your friend’s cellphone from your cellphone? Did you know that you can SMS to someone using email?
This list is extremely helpful, if you are outside US and would like to SMS someone in US, you can just send it as an email.
This also helps sysadmins, who want to receive the system alert notification from a monitoring software to the pager as a SMS message. For example, I use Verizon phone, and instead of sending my critical Nagios notifications to ramesh@thegeekstuff.com email address, I setup Nagios to send SMS to my cell phone using @vtext.com email address.
Replace cell-phone-number in all the email address below with your 10 digit mobile phone number. For example, if you friend’s cellphone number is 123-456-7890 with AT & T, send an email to 1234567890@txt.att.net, which will be delivered as SMS message to your friend on his phone.
If you don’t see a specific cell phone carrier in the list below, leave a comment and let me know.
Major US Cellphone Carriers
Let us address the big boys first.
AT&T – cell-phone-number@txt.att.net
Sprint – cell-phone-number@messaging.sprintpcs.com
T-Mobile – cell-phone-number@tmomail.net
Verizon – cell-phone-number@vtext.com
All other US Cellphone Carriers
All Tell – cell-phone-number@@message.alltel.com
Boost – cell-phone-number@myboostmobile.com
Cellular South – cell-phone-number@csouth1.com
Centennial Wireless – cell-phone-number@cwemail.com
Cincinnati Bell – cell-phone-number@gocbw.com
Cricket Wireless – cell-phone-number@sms.mycricket.com
Metro PCS – cell-phone-number@mymetropcs.com
Powertel – cell-phone-number@ptel.net
Qwest – cell-phone-number@qwestmp.com
Rogers – cell-phone-number@pcs.rogers.com
Suncom – cell-phone-number@tms.suncom.com
Telus – cell-phone-number@msg.telus.com
U.S. Cellular – cell-phone-number@email.uscc.net
Virgin Mobile USA – cell-phone-number@vmobl.com
If you don’t see a specific cell phone carrier in the above list, let me know.
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Sir can we send sms on Indian Netwroks like Airtel,Bsnl…etc?
Cricket Wireless – cell-phone-number@sms.mycricket.com is one way.
You can also send it to this one too:
Cricket Wireless – cell-phone-number@mms.mycricket.com
very usefull for administrators, Do you know if can I do the same in mexico? and how?
Thanks in advance.
do-you-have-any-for-trac-phones
Even with the proper email address, some carriers will not accept anything from protected sources (reverse DNS lookup kills it). I wanted my server to text my cell phone when certain events happen. The carrier finally told me they could not accept such messages from our corporate environment. Of course other carriers used by my colleagues could receive the text. Now, I have the server send messages to an email address outside my office and then I have that message sent to my cell phone. It does work with the addresses you posted, but sometimes you have to go to an interim step to get it done.
Is it possible with Net10 carrier? It’s a non contract pre pay service.
How do I find out, who is the carrier for my friend’s cell phone ?
Hi,
You are not listing some prepaid companies, like:
1. Net10
2, StraightTalk
They may be covered by one of the major carriers, the question is if they will get the SMS?
Thanks for the useful information.
The best way to find out if your carrier does txt to email/email to txt is to ask them. Most major carriers that service larger metropolitan markets should have something in place but it is best to check with them first.
How about Germany? Vodafone in particular??
what about Tracfone??
It is just an echo of Kuldeep’s query, are such facilities available for Indian Carrier(Vodafone, Airtel, Aircel, BSNL/MTNL,TaTa, Reliance) ?
Do you know how to send free SMS or MMS to international numbers without paying for it? Thanks for replay
what about here in the philippines?
Do you have an email address for texting to a TracFone phone?
What about Verizon and Net 10 Networks?
Awesome article. I tried sending to my mobile phone (I’m a Verizon customer). At first I thought it didn’t work (the process) but it did –it just takes a few minutes.
Thanks for posting this article.
Cheers,
Adam
I tried this on my yahoo mail and send my phone (AT&T) a test and did not work.
Vodafone
MTS
Reliance
Looks like att has restricted SMS email. I wonder why?
what is the address to send SMS text via email to a Smart Talk Phone?
Hi,
How to Send SMS Using Email for Arch Wireless Holdings, Inc. Thanks
alright this is really bugging me!! ive been trying to find out how to send a txt to a cincinnati bell user and gocwb.com does not work!! does anyone know how to fix this?? It would absolutely make my day if i found the reall way to do it!!
Thanks
i want to send a text from my email to NET10 ….
I had used a universal extension that would allow me to send an email to any carrier’s SMS instead of having to specify, for example, 999-999-9999@txt.att.net.
I believe it had the word “switch” in the extension. Something like @*switch.net where * is the word I’m trying to recall.
Have you heard of this?
No I haven’t heard of that… so i just put in the person’s number then @switch.net ??
I didn’t see consumer cellular THX
This would be helpful for Indian sys-admins to send free sms