Text to an email address?

I want to send a text message from my Blackberry Curve to an email address.
I say text message because I have no data plan. The Curve does not seem to
let me put an email address on the to line. Help please. Is this a
Blackberry problem or a texting limitation problem.

Fred

At 08 Jun 2009 21:51:10 -0400 Fred wrote:
> I want to send a text message from my Blackberry Curve to an email address.

> I say text message because I have no data plan. The Curve does not seem
to
> let me put an email address on the to line. Help please. Is this a
> Blackberry problem or a texting limitation problem.


Both. A texting problem in that you can't send directly to an email
address with a text message. Instead, you send a specially formated text
to special "text to email" gateway set up by your carrier. It's also a
Blackberry problem in that most phones "figure out" what you're trying to
do and format the text automatically when you type an email address in the
"to:" field.

I found this blog explaing how to do it on Cingular (presumably it hasn't
changed):
<http://tabletpcthoughts.blogspot.com...from-cingular-
sms-text.html>

Send a text to 0000000000 (ten zeros), containing the email address to send
to, immediately followed by the subject in parentheses, a space, then the
message. If you don't need a subject (it all comes out of the 160-
character limit!) it's just email address, space, message.

I'm with T-Mobile, which is similar except we send the texts to "500", and
use pound signs ("#") around the subject instead of parentheses.

"Todd Allcock" <elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> wrote in message
news:AYmXl.7188$i01.1162@newsfe12.iad...
> At 08 Jun 2009 21:51:10 -0400 Fred wrote:
>> I want to send a text message from my Blackberry Curve to an email
>> address.
>
>> I say text message because I have no data plan. The Curve does not seem
> to
>> let me put an email address on the to line. Help please. Is this a
>> Blackberry problem or a texting limitation problem.
>
>
> Both. A texting problem in that you can't send directly to an email
> address with a text message. Instead, you send a specially formated text
> to special "text to email" gateway set up by your carrier. It's also a
> Blackberry problem in that most phones "figure out" what you're trying to
> do and format the text automatically when you type an email address in the
> "to:" field.
>
> I found this blog explaing how to do it on Cingular (presumably it hasn't
> changed):
> <http://tabletpcthoughts.blogspot.com...from-cingular-
> sms-text.html>
>
> Send a text to 0000000000 (ten zeros), containing the email address to
> send
> to, immediately followed by the subject in parentheses, a space, then the
> message. If you don't need a subject (it all comes out of the 160-
> character limit!) it's just email address, space, message.
>
> I'm with T-Mobile, which is similar except we send the texts to "500", and
> use pound signs ("#") around the subject instead of parentheses.
>
>

Here's what I got when clicking your link:

Page not found
Sorry, the page you were looking for in the blog Tablet PC Thoughts does not
exist.

On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:34:05 -0400, "Fred" <none@abc.com> wrote in
<IRzYl.34040$VL5.30669@newsfe22.iad>:

>"Todd Allcock" <elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> wrote in message
>news:AYmXl.7188$i01.1162@newsfe12.iad...

>> I found this blog explaing how to do it on Cingular (presumably it hasn't
>> changed):
>> <http://tabletpcthoughts.blogspot.com...from-cingular-
>> sms-text.html>
>>
>> Send a text to 0000000000 (ten zeros), containing the email address to
>> send
>> to, immediately followed by the subject in parentheses, a space, then the
>> message. If you don't need a subject (it all comes out of the 160-
>> character limit!) it's just email address, space, message.
>>
>> I'm with T-Mobile, which is similar except we send the texts to "500", and
>> use pound signs ("#") around the subject instead of parentheses.

>Here's what I got when clicking your link:
>
>Page not found
>Sorry, the page you were looking for in the blog Tablet PC Thoughts does not
>exist.

That's probably because the URL was mangled by wrapping.
Try: <http://preview.tinyurl.com/nyu2wq>

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At 12 Jun 2009 18:57:43 -0700 John Navas wrote:

> >> I found this blog explaing how to do it on Cingular (presumably it
hasn't
> >> changed):
> >> <http://tabletpcthoughts.blogspot.com...g-e-mail-from-
cingular-
> >> sms-text.html>
> >>
> >> Send a text to 0000000000 (ten zeros), containing the email address to
> >> send
> >> to, immediately followed by the subject in parentheses, a space, then
the
> >> message. If you don't need a subject (it all comes out of the 160-
> >> character limit!) it's just email address, space, message.
> >>
> >> I'm with T-Mobile, which is similar except we send the texts to "500",
and
> >> use pound signs ("#") around the subject instead of parentheses.
>
> >Here's what I got when clicking your link:
> >
> >Page not found
> >Sorry, the page you were looking for in the blog Tablet PC Thoughts does
not
> >exist.
>
> That's probably because the URL was mangled by wrapping.
> Try: <http://preview.tinyurl.com/nyu2wq>
>

I'd hoped bracketing the URL would keep it intact, but apparently not.

Thanks for covering for me...

In any case, I believe I repeated all the necessary info- I mostly included
the URL just to give credit where credit was due.

On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 09:23:58 -0700, Evan Platt
<evan@theobvious.espphotography.com> wrote in
<pjk7359qb9j4rrjgsmfqogi7e1v5257or5@4ax.com>:

>On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:56:19 -0600, Todd Allcock
><elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> wrote:
>
>>I'd hoped bracketing the URL would keep it intact, but apparently not.
>>
>>Thanks for covering for me...
>>
>>In any case, I believe I repeated all the necessary info- I mostly included
>>the URL just to give credit where credit was due.
>
>I've found putting a right bracket in front usually works more often
>than not, ie
>
>>http://tabletpcthoughts.blogspot.com...-sms-text.html

Good suggestion, since quoting suppresses wrapping in many news clients,
but the URL should still be framed in <>

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