Sending a text message to an email

[frobie]

Sometimes for work I get a text message from a mailing list when a server goes down. For some reason I am unable to send a text reply to the email. Is this something I have to do something special for? I have always been able to do it on my old phones (non windows mobile).

[alkizmo]

that's a carrier feature. You'll have to call them. Probably the old phones were configured for your carrier.

[Radimus]

Sometimes for work I get a text message from a mailing list when a server goes down. For some reason I am unable to send a text reply to the email. Is this something I have to do something special for? I have always been able to do it on my old phones (non windows mobile).

can we be more specific? I'm having a hard time following you.

You get a SMS message from work? or an email?

is it sent to the SMS address on your phone or as an email?

When you reply, are you sending a SMS or an Email? what is the address type that you are replying to?


The devil is in the details....

[frobie]

When the mailing list sends out the messages it sends it to something like my phone number @txt.att.net however when I go to reply with a text message (sms) to the email address that the message was sent from it gives me an error saying "The text message account cannot be used to send email messages"

[Radimus]

When the mailing list sends out the messages it sends it to something like my phone number @txt.att.net however when I go to reply with a text message (sms) to the email address that the message was sent from it gives me an error saying "The text message account cannot be used to send email messages"

ok... you are using the email to SMS gateway.

you cannot text message to an email address from your phone.

You can MMS to an email address, try it that way

HOWEVER, if the sms you receive has sending address of a bunch of numbers, it can reply back to the original sender using the sms to email gateway that AT&T (or others) provides.. just reply.. do not change the address.

[blackout128]

AT&T is my carrier and I send SMS to email addresses everyday. The email recepient sends their email to me and it shows up in SMS format. When I flashed to a Schaps Rom, I could not do it anymore, so I flashed to another rom (k's 1.30b) and it works just fine. It's a pretty handy feature to have. I am not sure if it is a carrier feature, but I do know not all roms let you do it.

[frobie]

That must be what it is. I am using the TNT rom. I will try another.

[kenlester]

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=1987708#post1987708