Email to SMS Gateway
Email to SMS Gateway is an instrument which allows an email to be sent as an
SMS message from PC to mobile device. The gateway provides the connection
between the computer and the mobile phone and converts email to SMS messages.
Email is the most common form of the Internet. Millions of people are
exchanging messages with each other in every second. I am sure that you also often
send email messages to your business partners or costumers. Has it ever happended that
they did not receive the message because there was a problem with the Internet
connection or the addressee was not near his/her computer, but the message was very
important? Email to SMS Gateway provides a solution to this problem. With The
SMS Gateway application integrated to email service you can write an email in your
message program and send it as an SMS message to a mobile phone.
The configuration
To send SMS from your email client or server you have three alternatives.
- The first option is using the SMTP connection to create email to SMS forwarding.
Then the SMTP server receives email messages which are sent so that the email
address contains the phone number. When you send a message for example to the following
+1234567890@192.168.0.1 email address, the +1234567890 means the phone number, the 192.168.0.1
is the IP address of the SMS Gateway.
- The second alternative is to use your corporate SMTP server to receive email
from your PC and to transmit that to SMTP server of SMS Gateway. The benefit of
this option is that it lets your PC send regulation email and email as SMS too.
- The last option is to install a POP3 mailbox on the mail server of your
enterprise. Setup the SMS Gateway to download messages from company mailbox
and forward that in email. Then the email address will be the same as the
original except that you need to write the phone number into the subject of
the email.
Either way you choose you get many benefits with this application.
- You can easily send informations to your business partners about the
approaching dates, meetings.
- Your customers will be inform about the buying process. So they will be more
satisfied.
- Email client can notify you if you got important new messages.
- Email to SMS Gateway helps your company in communication and enables continuous
availability.
To get more information, please visit the following websites:
The Ozeki NG SMS Gateway website
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