Email to SMS

Email to SMS is simple and it allows you to compose and send sms text messages right from your existing email account.

Step 1 is add your email address to allowed email list. This should be the from email address that is authorized to send text messages. You can add as many authorized emails as you want. In the example below we have added [e-mail]

Step 2 is configure and customize your settings, but clicking on the settings tab on the Email To SMS screen. You can select the parts of the email to include in the text message along with the maximum length of the text message. Email's will be truncated to to specified max size.

Step 3 is to compose a message from your existing email client. The recipient should be a valid 10 digit number followed by @sms.textp2p.com. Since we only support texting people in the US and Canada the leading country code of +1 is implied.

See example below

NOTE: Only a single recipient is allowed, and the CC and BCC are ignored.  If you need to send the message to more than one phone number, then you will want to create a list first inside of TextP2P with all the contacts who need to receive the message. Then instead of sending to just a single phone number, you will want to send to the "list-" and then list id (list-<list_id>@sms.textp2p.com).  The list id can be found on the "lists" screen, see below.

Only contacts on the list in an ACTIVE or UNVERIFIED status will be sent the message. Therefore any contact that is UNSUBSCRIBED or NONACTIVE due to a bad number will not be sent the message and you will not be charged for it.  The list can have maximum of 100 contacts.

Below is an example of what an list email to sms might look like:

Step 4 is you will receive a confirmation email receipt by default after your email has been processed. This can be turned ON/OFF by the settings tab. Example of the successful receipt below. (if enabled). NOTE: Do not enable if the mailbox sender can not receive emails.

Here is an example of a failure to send message. Failures can be caused by many reasons including: unauthorized "From" email address, invalid recipient or invalid format, failed to send text due to unsubscribe, etc. See example below.

Watch this video for an overview of the Email to SMS feature.