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Following the introduction of Unicode messaging and the ability to fix the Expiry Date & Time of MT SMS, the Email-to-SMS facility now provides support for both of these features.

Unlike our SMS API or Web-to-SMS, the expiry date & time in Email-to-SMS messages is provide as hours and minutes (e.g. 1h55 - 1 hour and 55 minutes). This is in line with the intended use of the Email-to-SMS service, i.e. to provide desk staff with the simplest method of sending SMS.

Support for Unicode messaging now means that customers speaking different languages from all over the world can now use their email clients to send SMS in their own languages. No extra steps are required... when a UTF-8 email is received, it is treated as a Unicode message.

We would also like to remind Email-to-SMS users that, whilst it will always be possible to send one message to multiple recipients, it is no longer possible to send multiple messages to multiple recipients. This was announced on 27 May 2006 and has taken effect today.