Hi All,
Not sure if this is the right forum to ask in, am looking a solution that allows for a client to send a short email to receiptients as a text, their reply come in as an email. Is this “idea” possible?
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Why not just get their email address and send an email.
Text is a bit of a silly tech to use since it was designed to only send messages of a limited length.
Email has all these wonderful things like image embedments and attachments.
Meets exactly what you need.
Back when i worked the front line, it was ever so useful!
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johny99: I’m sure it’s only one liners, is there a profession text solution, can not be be sparks etxt as the number it sends from is forever changing and the client has no easy idea who the sender is.
I'd have to double check... but last i dug into it, etxt was bound to a beginning phone number with a few extra digits to identify what email to route to..
Also does support multiline
Check your phone ;)
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johny99: ... am looking a solution that allows for a client to send a short email to recipients as a text, their reply comes in as an email. ...
... as the number it sends from is forever changing and the client has no easy idea who the sender is.
Just to clarify, you want to be able to send an email. This is then converted into an SMS from "your number". Then,if the recipient replies via SMS, it will automagically be converted back into an email to be read in your mail client?
What does your search for 'sms gateways' reveal?
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IcI:
johny99: ... am looking a solution that allows for a client to send a short email to recipients as a text, their reply comes in as an email. ...
... as the number it sends from is forever changing and the client has no easy idea who the sender is.
Just to clarify, you want to be able to send an email. This is then converted into an SMS from "your number". Then,if the recipient replies via SMS, it will automagically be converted back into an email to be read in your mail client?
What does your search for 'sms gateways' reveal?
Can you identify some hardware that can do this and i guess that one just needs an active SIM to go in to gateway
Looks like this service might be something: Email2SMS
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www.burstsms.co.nz will do that out of the box too.
To reply to a text you just need your own short number which is $20/month.
Their API is really good to if you ever needed to integrate with any other service in the future.
Edit: Just to add, endorsement comes from using them for a bunch of things of the last 2-3 years. Also plug-ins with Zapier if you need to automate tasks/replies in the future.
hio77:
Meets exactly what you need.
Back when i worked the front line, it was ever so useful!
Plus one for etxt by Spark. We use it at work and it works a treat. We have it setup domain wide so any email to number[@]etext.co.nz from any @domain email address sends replies back to the sender. Can't speak for costs but it is very reliable from my experience.
kingjj: ... but it is very reliable from my experience.
Except if you are using IPv6.
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kingjj: ... but it is very reliable from my experience.
Except if you are using IPv6.
duh. thanks for the reminder... i'll give it another ask..
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Coil: At Vodafone we could email (number)@mtxt.co.nz and get replies back to it.
Not sure if that was internal only or a service offered.
Cheers
multitxt is the red version of the product (iirc it was called mtxt back in the day..)
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We have used https://www.smsglobal.com/ you can purchase a response phone number
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