The limitations of Email-to-SMS.
There are two main limitations which users of the Email-to-SMS service should be fully aware of:
- New lines are forbidden
The Email-to-SMS service recognises the beginning of a value by means of a parameter name followed by a dash (e.g. msg -) and the end of the value by means of a line-end. As such, it is not possible to include a new line within an actual value as the Email-to-SMS interpreter will recognise it as the end of the value.
- Limited character set
The basic transport system of email is designed for plain ASCII text only and this limitation is usually overcome through a system of encoding and decoding arbitrary data into plain ASCII text. However, this is not possible with the Email-to-SMS service and so message bodies of MT SMS submitted through the Email-to-SMS are restricted to the following characters:
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