Background
Total Access Emailer is the world's most popular Microsoft Access email add-in product and VBA code library. Simplify the way you communicate with your contacts, and easily share the data and reports from your Microsoft Access databases with personalized emails for each recipient.
Question
Can Total Access Emailer send Text Messages?
Answer
Yes it can. Text messages can be sent using email programs and Total Access Emailer for Microsoft Access is capable of sending text messages to your recipients. To send a text message via email, you must simply use the SMS Text to Email gateway that is determined by the recipients provider.
This is done my determining the convention required for the "TO" address that you will be using to send the email as a text message to a given recipient. This format varies by provider.
For example, for AT&T recipients, the SMS email convention uses this:
number@txt.att.net
Where "number" is the cell phone number of the recipient.
The following URL provides some examples of other SMS gateway formats that are required by other popular providers.
http://20somethingfinance.com/how-to-send-text-messages-sms-via-email-for-free/
If the one that you are looking for is not listed, you may locate it by simply performing a search on the web or by contacting the provider directly. If you're given a number, and you don't know what the mobile provider is, you can use this site to determine that:
http://www.freecarrierlookup.com/
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Using Total Access Emailer in our Access 2003 application, we can send a text to a smartphone, but the body text received is garbled characters in upper or lower case and numbers; having no resemblance to the actual text being sent.
We can send the same text to an email address (cc) simultaneously with the email to the AT&T text address. The text in the received email is correct, but the text in the text message received by the phone is garbled characters, numbers, punctuation.
We purchased your "Professional" and plan to embed the TAEmailer function into our application for which we have current subscribers.
Using SendOne email to send a TXT to a smart phone. We're typing the parameters and text into the FMS Email test form.
The body text: This is a test is being received as garbled upper/lower characters, numbers, and punctuation.
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