Sending SMS to an Email Address

[Dave]

Heya, folks.

My cell provider has an automated SMS service to provide a status
report on used minutes/data/etc. I built a beautiful little parser in
Tasker for the SMS status message they send me and a widget to
reformat and display the data from it that I want, but I can't get
Tasker to send the request SMS. I suspect that it's because the SMS
"number" is actually an email address. The stock Android messaging app
handles this without any trouble and I can use the Tasker "Compose
SMS" task as a clumsy workaround, but the "Send SMS" task appears to
do nothing.

Any insight on this?

Thanks,
Dave

[DaWeav]

I have Sprint, and when I want to send a SMS to Email, I use their SMS
to Email gateway server by texting to number 6245 and formatting the
SMS body with the email address first followed with a space and the
then the message. Maybe your provider has a similar gateway server.
If so, maybe your SMS app on you phone is automatically reformatting
the SMS in the background by sending it to some provider gateway
server when you put an email address in the to field.

[Dave]

Aha!

I'm on PagePlus (via KittyWireless), which operates on the Verizon
network. After a great deal of searching (the first few hits of which
seemed to indicate that Verizon has a server-side backend for handling
SMS-to-Email) I discovered one little Q&A that suggested exactly the
method you describe. I guess there may be automatic gateway code
buried somewhere in the standard messaging app. Sending the status SMS
via the 6245 gateway in Tasker seems to work fine.

Thanks for the help.

Dave

[GreatMoloko]

Has anyone figured this out on Verizon

I tried entering the e-mail address as the dest and the 6245 thing...
but no luck so far

I'm trying to setup a profile in case the phone is stolen, and I want
to text the GPS cords to an e-mail address

[DaWeav]

Verizon has a Email to SMS gateway so the outbound gateway server must
be documented somewhere. I imagine you could try this trick to find
out what it might be. The trick would be to setup Tasker to display
the %SMSRF variable when it recieves a Text message that is sent to
your phone from email via "10DigitPh...@vtext.com". The %SMSRF
variable should show you what Verizon's Gateway Server text number is
with any luck.

[Pete Scott]

Supposedly, Verizon's _IS_ 6245 ("mail"). Or at least _used_ to be.

Regardless, I sent myself an email (simply putting an email address as
the "number" in the stock messaging app on Android 2.2 (Motorola
Droid) and it worked fine.

I then set up a test task in Tasker to send an SMS to the email
address and never received the message. Here's what the Tasker log had
to say:

8-17-10 Variables: 10.19.33#Variables: Test->Test
8-17-10 E: 10.19.34#E: exe: Test / Send SMS
[ Number:psc...@xxxxxxxx.com Message:Hello world Store In Messaging
App:Off ]
8-17-10 Variables: 10.19.34#Variables: psc...@xxxxxxxx.com-
>psc...@xxxxxxxx.com
8-17-10 Variables: 10.19.34#Variables: Hello world->Hello world
8-17-10 E: 10.19.34#E: remove finished task from q: 163 / Test
8-17-10 E: 10.19.34#E: join
8-17-10 E: 10.19.34#E: stopSelf: 1 alldone: true qcount: 0
8-17-10 E: 10.19.34#E: joined
8-17-10 WakeLockManager: 10.19.34#WakeLockManager: release: E
8-17-10 ReceiverStaticInternal: 10.19.46#ReceiverStaticInternal: r:
net.dinglisch.android.tasker.SMSEY
8-17-10 WakeLockManager: 10.19.46#WakeLockManager: acquired lock for M
autorelease: true warn: true
8-17-10 M: 10.19.46#M: extra: eventAct:
net.dinglisch.android.tasker.SMSEY
8-17-10 M: 10.19.46#M: extra: eventDt: tel:psc...@t2systems.com
8-17-10 M: 10.19.46#M: extra: eventType: 9996
8-17-10 M: 10.19.46#M: extra: eventExt:
Bundle[mParcelledData.dataSize=72]
8-17-10 M: 10.19.46#M: B errorCode: 105
8-17-10 M: 10.19.46#M: B rcvres: 1

I'm not sure if the error code might mean anything to Pent without him
having to dig into the code.

On Aug 17, 9:58 am, DaWeav <wwwjunkem...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Verizon has a Email to SMS gateway so the outbound gateway server must
> be documented somewhere.  I imagine you could try this trick to find
> out what it might be.  The trick would be to setup Tasker to display
> the %SMSRF variable when it recieves a Text message that is sent to

> your phone from email via "10DigitPhoneNum...@vtext.com".  The %SMSRF

[Rick]

Anyone figure this out. I'm in the same situation, would like to send
a text message to an email address. When I do it directly from
Handcent or the default messaging app with the email address for the
phone number it works fine, but through tasker I get a warning message
saying that there is an unknown null variable.

On Aug 17, 7:32 am, Pete Scott <pete.j.sc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Supposedly, Verizon's _IS_ 6245 ("mail"). Or at least _used_ to be.
>

> Regardless, I sent myself anemail(simply putting anemailaddress as

> > Verizon has aEmailto SMS gateway so the outbound gateway server must

> > be documented somewhere.  I imagine you could try this trick to find
> > out what it might be.  The trick would be to setup Tasker to display
> > the %SMSRF variable when it recieves a Text message that is sent to

> > your phone fromemailvia "10DigitPhoneNum...@vtext.com".  The %SMSRF

> > variable should show you what Verizon's Gateway Server text number is

> > with any luck.- Hide quoted text -
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