Knowledge Base

Sub-categories

1. Default Settings
   Pre-saved values to make Email-to-SMS messaging as easy as possible.
2. Permissions
   Controlled access to the Email-to-SMS facility.

Articles

• The limitations of Email-to-SMS.

Tutorials

• How to submit MT SMS using Email-to-SMS.
• How to have delivery reports sent back to the sender of an Email-to-SMS message.

Frequently Asked Questions

• What is the difference between Email-to-SMS and the SMTP version of the SMS API?
• What happens if I include my 'signature' within the email?
• Do the parameters and their corresponding values have to be in a particular order?
• What happens if I include more than one instance of a particular parameter?
• How do I send a Unicode message via Email-to-SMS?
• Why do my Email-to-SMS messages get truncated to approximately 70 characters?

How to submit MT SMS using Email-to-SMS.

To submit MT SMS using Email-to-SMS, simply use your email client to compose an email according the following guidelines:

• The 'subject' field - Our confirmations and delivery reports will use this as their subjects, so provide something meaningful to facilitate immediate/visual matching.
• The 'to' field - This should be set to email2sms@tm4b.com
• The message body - This should include the following parameters along with corresponding values, separated by dashes:
  

  Password	the Email-to-SMS password allocated to the sending email address This is not the password of your main TM4B Account.
  From	the originator If a default value has been saved via SMS Online, there is no need to include it.
  To	the recipients Multiple recipient should be seperated with commas OR pipes (i.e. |).
  Msg	the message body
  Route	the messaging route If a default value has been saved via SMS Online, there is no need to include it.
  Expiry	the number of hours & mins after which the message should expire For example: 1h55 (i.e. 1 hour and 55 minutes) The default value is the maximum period (i.e. 72 hours) and there is no need to include it.