MMS

[pb1234]

In the states the major carriers allow you to send texts via email - you send an email to destinationnumber@whatevertheaccessserveris.com, and I know that some of the carriers in other countries do this too.

Does O2 provide this service?

[O2_Daryll Community Manager]

I remember something like this before but I am not sure if we do it anymore. Let me do a little bit of investigating and come back to you.

[O2_Daryll Community Manager]

Email Via SMS

Some handsets do not have any Email Messaging function built-in or customers may not want to register on MyMail to send an e-mail message.
An alternative option is to send a mesasage to an email address via SMS.

This service is provided and supported by Go2Mobile.

It is sent via SMS and so does not require anything to be added to the account.

It would appear in the user's mailbox as being sent from admin@gO2mobile.com or 086xxxxxxx@go2mobile.com.
The subject of the mail is "A Go2mobile.com message has arrived from +35386xxxxxxx"

How to send an SMS Email -

Send SMS To : 086 6055506.
If the option to send "Email via SMS" is built-in to the phone menu you may be prompted for the Email Server Number. Enter 0866055506.
You don't need to have a built-in menu option - just follow instructions below and send the message to 0866055506.

Sending : The first part of the SMS must contain the receiving email address followed by a space and then the message - eg: user@o2.ie Rest of message here...

Charge : It is charged at the cost of a normal SMS

Limitations:
You are limited to a maximum of 160 characters including the email address.
The E-Mail sent cannot be replied to, as the address is ficticious

[pb1234]

Thanks Daryll, that's useful info.

What I'm looking for is the same sort of thing but in reverse - eg you send an email and it gets delivered as a text message.

[O2_Daryll Community Manager]

Ya, the second part shows you how to do that

[pb1234]

Ya, the second part shows you how to do that

No it doesn't. You have told me how to send an email by SMS.

I want to send an SMS by email:

eg. If I want to send a text to someone who's email address is 0861234567 I can send an email to 0861234567@o2emailtosmsgateway.ie note that this is just an illustrative example and doesn't work! (actually one of the UK ones used to be @mmail.co.uk iirc)

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/email-to-sms/

[O2_Daryll Community Manager]

Oh right, my bad.

SMS > Email, Email > SMS. Its easy to be confused

[pb1234]

No worries.

Do you think it would be possible to find out if it exists?

[O2_Mary]

I'm not sure this can be done but will look into it further for you

[joejoe]

O2 have said numerous times they don't support it. Meteor are the only ones that do and even then it's MMS (meteornumber@mms.mymeteor.ie).

Please O2 come out and tell us about a gem you've been hiding

[cookie]

No worries.

Do you think it would be possible to find out if it exists?

http://www.esendex.ie/Services/Email-SMS/

Pay to use system seemingly. Never tried it myself

[pb1234]

I'm not sure this can be done but will look into it further for you

Hi Mary, anything further on this?

[pb1234]

Any update on this?

[O2_Paddy]

I'll check for you now.

[pb1234]

Hi Paddy, anything further on this?

[O2_Daryll Community Manager]

Sorry bud just to follow up on this we are not supporting this at all right now.

[pb1234]

That's a shame.

Thanks for the reply.

[flobo]

Do you know if O2 have any plans to provide this service in the near future? It is a service that is currently provided by meteor Ireland - as someone already pointed out in this thread. And it is a service provided extensively throughout other countries. It's even provided by O2 within the UK.

This is a service that I have seen used extensively throughout varying organisations, for paging people for on-call type work. Given that, I have also seen it caused some challenges for technology organisations investing in Ireland - a problem they don't encounter in other countries.

Is there a strong reason for O2 Ireland not providing this service?

Thanks...

[O2_Lisa Community Manager]

Hi flobo,

I can confirm that we have no plans to provide this service.

[flobo]

That's unfortunate O2_Lisa. Because its a service provided by the main service providers in other countries, it creates a challenge for Irish firms in providing equivalent opportunities for call center type jobs and IT Support positions.