SMS 2 Email

[Guest stargate]

Using SMS2Email you can forward your incoming SMS messages to your mobile phone to a specified e-mail address. You can also send SMS messages from your e-mail client (Outlook, Thunderbird or even web-based) directly to a mobile phone.

More information and download location here - http://www.fightersoft.ro/sms2email/index.htm

Enjoy!

[Guest stargate]

Bumping up. No comment, no feedback? ;)

To make things clear - this application sends your incoming SMS messages to your e-mail account and could send your e-mail messages through your phone to any phone as SMS messages.

[Guest chucky.egg]

I dunno, maybe it's just me, but it doesn't seem to make sense

You copy incoming SMS messages to an email address, but you do it over GPRS (which some people don't have, and in the UK is quite expensive).

You can then use your PC with your phone connected using ActiveSync to send replies via SMTP.

SMTP being free makes this a good idea, but having to have your phone connected makes it fairly restrictive. SMS messages are popular because they are quick, easy and you can send them from anywhere.

You then have to supply a UserID based on your IP address - but many people have dynamic IP addresses.

I dunno, if I understand it correctly. It all just feels overly complicated.

Why not:

1) Get one or more email addresses from users when they sign up

2) The user then just sends a regular email message (from the account on their phone or PC) to a pre-defined email address with the destination number in the subject line and the message in the Body.

3) Your server then polls the POP mailbox every N seconds. It checks the senders email address, recipient's number and message are valid, and processes the messages.

You could set that system up in Outlook using Rules on any PC with broadband internet connection.

If you wanted to make the experience easier on the user you could create a form that lets the user choose a recipient from their Contacts, and enter a message. The form then creates an email and puts the standard destination email address in the To field, the mobile number in the Subject line and the message in the Body. It should be able to send the message as well in one action I suspect.

[Guest stargate]

It is my belief that the first feature SMS 2 Email is extremly simple and inexpensive. The traffic made using GPRS is extremly low - a few kbs. All the user has to do is to start the program and point the e-mail address he would like the incoming SMS messages to be sent to. That is it. I think it's a small price to pay to have all your SMS messages sent to the phone saved on your e-mail account. Note that if you connect your phone to ActiveSync, you don't even need GPRS. However, the ideea is that SMS2Email to be completly mobile.

In the second feature Email 2 SMS the user only has to connect his phone to the PC with ActiveSync (usb, bluetooth, etc) and send e-mail messages to the smtp server (that IS included in the package). The ip address can be, for example, shown in the server running on the desktop computer (example - "use [email protected] for address when composing your message).

No one has to sign up for anything what so ever. That is the whole ideea. No subscriptions, no nothing. You can forward SMS messages directly to your phone to your e-mail account and then reply to them using your e-mail clients. You don't need to subscribe to a particular service or anything.

Edited January 24, 2006 by stargate

[Guest chucky.egg]

OK, I think I understand, but it still seems the wrong way around.

The bit that you want to be mobile is the "Email To SMS", because that's what's going to save you (the user) money and that's probably the biggest motivation to use this sort of thing.

If it meant free SMS via email I'd "subscribe" (by providing an email address from which I could send those messages). Rather that than having a facility I can only use when I'm at home with my phone connected - from a practical point of view that wouldn't be flexible enough to be any use to me.

I don't mean to sound too critical, you asked for feedback. Perhaps I'm the only one that thinks that way, maybe everyone else thinks it's a great idea.

[Guest stargate]

I agree, the strong point of the package is the sms2email part. The second part is more common. There are many applications arround that can do this. Also there are SMS gateways that automatically convert e-mail messages to SMS (subscription required of course). Since I managed to get the first part working, I thought that it wasn't a bad ideea to offer email2sms as some sort of bonus . No one is forced to use this feature, however I thought that many people would like to reply to SMS sent to the e-mail account using the e-mail account.

I welcome and appreciate your feedback. I am just trying to share my view.

[Guest hian]

Hi all. My friend just sent me a program call "Jeyo Mobile Extender". Quite similiar to what stargate is introducing, but a little bit different, I think. With the Jeyo thing, and with my smartphone connected to my pc, I can send and receive sms through MS-Outlook. For me, it's pretty convenient due to I send a lot of messages everyday. So instead using two thumbs pressing on the handphone keypad, typing on a full size keyboard will be more convenient and I will be able to do other work on the pc at the same time. 8)