Outlook Tip: Send An Email To A Traditional Mobile Device

Although many businesses use smart phones for their business communications, sometimes there is a need to send a message to a partner or customer who uses a regular cell phone. You can do it right from Outlook if the recipient’s phone supports SMS (short message service), which is a common feature for the majority of the phones available in the market.

All you need is the recipient’s email address. The major carriers usually assign an email address of user’s 10 digit phone number at carrier domain name dot com, and you can use it to send short text messages to any cell phone. If you are not sure what email domain to use, below are domains for the major US carriers.

 

Carrier	Send Email to phonenumber@...
Alltel	@message.alltel.com
AT&T	@mms.att.net
Nextel	@messaging.nextel.com
Sprint	@messaging.sprintpcs.com
SunCom	@tms.suncom.com
T-mobile	@tmomail.net
VoiceStream	@voicestream.net
Verizon	@vtext.com (text only) @vzwpix.com (pictures and videos)

If the domain for your recipient’s carrier is not listed here, you may check on the carrier’s website or contact their customer service.

Messages longer than 160 characters should be split into multiple messages of 160 characters each. If you know that your recipient has a camera phone, you can send them .jpg files from Outlook and they will receive them as picture messages.

Also, note that the message recipient might be charged a per message fee for your incoming message.

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