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MPx220 Cannot send Text Msg to E-mail address?
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Posted by: singhnx

I've got a V600 and an MPx220.

Using the same sim card (on the AT&T Wireless Provider) I can send a text msg to an e-mail address (edit: from my V600), but when I try to send it from my MPx220, it gives the following error:

Cannot send a text message to an e-mail adress.

How do I get around this?

Thanks for your help.

Posted by: S.Y.N.D.

Well at least you can still send and recieve SMS/Text messages, my 220 does not even have a text messaging section anymore.

I would try sending an email to yourself (to your phone), and see how your phone recieves it. there is probably an e-gateway that is two ways.

ie. send to phone ######
in text of message, first line is email address

Or something like that.

Good luck!

Posted by: singhnx

There's no issue sending a txt message to my phone via either the number (from another phone) or to it's e-mail address (#@mobile.att.net).

It's just that I can't txt to an e-mail address.

Sorry to hear about you not have the ability to do any mms/sms from your mpx220. What happened?

Posted by: singhnx

Here's the workaround that I was given by AT&T Wireless ...

Send a txt msg to 0000

In the body of the message, type out the e-mail address, enter a space, and then the body of the msg.

This works and sends out the txt msg, but it involves a lot more typing on the phone than I'd like. Oh well, at least it's something.

They mentioned that it might be shortcoming of the Microsoft OS that's loaded on the phone.

I wonder...

Posted by: S.Y.N.D.

I am not sure what kind of shortcomming.

What were you expecting? It is up the provider to determine how their SMS to email gateway will work.

On my T39m with TMobile, I would send to something like +12065555555 then a space or newline, then the email address then another space/newline then the body.

Long email addresses of course were harder since there is less room left for a message (out of 254 or 180 characters).

Now if you are trying to send email from your phone, using TXT messaging is probably not what you should be doing.

Have you used a phone where the email sending was transparent? Are you sure it was using text messaging (very very short emails only?)

Posted by: singhnx

S.Y.N.D,

Don't get me wrong, I'm not about to switch my MPx220 for the V600. Just the address book lookup and the ability to sync with my Lotus Notes e-mail (via Mnotes) is spectacular.

However, yes, I can verify that I was sending text messages through my V600 to e-mail addresses without having to go through sending it to a number. Maybe there were some behind the scenes stuff with the phone.

The text messages that I send out are responses to others letting me know about a change of plans ... usually. For example, I found out about this issue when our adminstrative assistant sent an e-mail to my phone letting me know that the meeting room had changed. I wanted to txt back a quick thank you and the phone wouldn't do it. I know that I've done it before, and when I got home, I switched out my SIM card into my new V600 paperweight

and voila, it sent the txt to an e-mail address.

That's what made me think that it was an OS issue. The error message that I'm getting is when I hit the send key, it seems that it doesn't want to send the txt message to anything but a number. This is before it tries to send it out. It's not like I'm getting an undeliverable message here's it back at you error. It's not even sending it out.

I don't plan on sending e-mails over my phone unless I'm stuck somewhere where I have absolutely no other recourse. It just takes too **** long to type out everything even with iTAP for me to not call in and leave someone a voicemail instead.

Thanks for your thoughts on this.

Posted by: Brandonjg

I just tried a test with my Cingular MPx220. I cant enter an email address into the "To" field of an SMS message (I can do it in MMS) so I tried emailing from my exchange server box to the phonenumber@cingularme.com address. The phone received the SMS message as follows:

Quote:

From: 1010100004
FRM:Brandon Goodman
SUBJ:Test from outlook
MSG: I hope I can reply to this thing

Im not sure what that numeric "From" address is all about but when I Replied, I did receive the response back in my Exchange mailbox as follows:

Quote:

Heres the reply

-----Original Message-----
From: user@domain.com
Sent: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 16:00:33 -0700
To: phonenumber@cingularme.com
Subject: Test from outlook

>I hope I can reply to this thing

--
===============================================
Brought to you by, Cingular Wireless Messaging
http://www.CingularMe.COM/

So apparently, the Cingular SMS email gateway is mapping those numbers to internet email addresses. I dont kow how long the mapping is in effect though.

Posted by: Omega2008

The email you recieved to your phone was it a POP3 or IMAP account? when you read the message how did you replay, did you just to go text messages keyed in the persons email address?

This is what I do, I have a Yahoo! Mail Plus account so I can access it via POP3. When someone sends me a message I go to my Yahoo Mail inbox and I read the message. If I want to reply to it I simply just hit menu Reply, Reply or if I want to forward: Menu, Reply, Forward. Works everytime and I don't have to send a SMS.

Now if someone sends me a message via mynumber@mobile.mycingular.com from a computer I will recieve it on my phone as a SMS. I hit the reply button and type my reply. In the to field is a number in my case it was 36245 when I hit the reply button, but I never go the reply. So simply put if you want to send email you must have an email account, you can recieve SMS as emails but you can't send them.....as of now anyways I am sure there is a way around it.