SMS via Email Primer Tutorial
Do you have access to email and are wanting to contact somebody that …
- has no email, but has a mobile number … or …
- you only know their mobile number
? … then an Email to SMS (short message service or text message) service could be the go to open the communication channels here.
You’ll find when you start researching this functionality there are a lot of service providers for this type of service, ranging from the Free Services to Premium Services for Personal Use or Business Service usage, as exemplified from a job of the past we had maintaining a Pet Reminder service that worked via PHP and MySql and crontab and automated SMS that you can get a feel for from this website screenshot from times past.
Today, we wanted to combine into a web application the functionality of one of those Free Email to SMS service providers, in our case for Australian mobile phones, run by The IT Company.
This simple to use service involved emailing to a …
04xxxxxxxx@sms.itcompany.com.au
… email address where you substitute “04xxxxxxxx” above with what your Australian mobile number is, and register yourself with The IT Company for this free service (up to 10 sms per day per mobile number). Simple, huh?! And so this is very easy to integrate into a web application we’ve written called email_to_sms.html with this live run link, that functions in name only (it would be your job to register your requirements with a service of interest, and amend this software as necessary) that performs the task through either …
- an email client program supervises via an HTML a link mailto: URL … or …
- a PHP mail arrangement send the SMS via email in an unsupervised manner via the use of this PHP email_to_sms.php
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