Re: Any Non-free SMS Gateways for e-mail to SMS on Wireless Carriers [telecom]

More to the point, I think (in theory): you *do* get 160 characters ...

*but* -- 11 of those get used for the 10-digits@ part of the address; more get used for the [mobile number gateway] part of the address; another 1-3 get used for the [space] (or [space][slash], or perhaps even [space][slash][space]) required between address and SMS body (ya never know just which).

And if you're using a "Subject:" line, every character it uses counts against your SMS body character-count.

So even a Verizontal snipped-for-privacy@vtext.com address should let at best a

139-character SMS (with no Subject: line) go through untruncated.

OK, that was in theory.

In practice: I just sent myself identical "Subject:"-less emails each consisting of five 35-character lines, each successive pair of which were separated by a terminating [CR][LF] pair, to SMS email addresses of the form 10-digit-#@tmomail.net and 10-digit-#@vtext.com.

Surprise: all 175 characters, and all 8 [CR][LF] characters, were displayed as received on my T-Mobile handset.

But on my Verizon handset, what came through was the full first four lines, with their terminating [CR][LF] pairs (148 characters there), and the first

14 characters of the 5th line (all told, 162 characters of SMS text).

So: theory and practice diverge (as usual, I suppose :-) ). HTH.

Cheers, -- tlvp

You can use bulksms.com Their email gateway is easy to use. When you forward the message you need to add a password wiht the subject.

My only complain about them is that they don't let you change the sender id in the USA (I guess some goverment regulation in the USA does not allow them to do that).

Otherwise it is much more convenient than typing in the tiny cell phone keyboard.

Joseph S>

What does it cost?

5 cents per message.