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Email-to-SMS


Q&A

Question

What is the difference between Email-to-SMS and the SMTP version of the SMS API?

Answer

The Email-to-SMS service is intended for those that wish to send SMS through their standard email clients, such as MS Outlook and Mozilla Thunderbird. The SMS API, on the other hand, is intended for programmatic sending of SMS.

Bearing in mind that each service is intended for a different type of use, there are significant differences between the two from feature perspective.

  1. Email-to-SMS only accommodates for plain ASCII text, whilst the SMTP version of the SMS API uses base64 encoding to allow for more than the limited ASII alphabet.
  2. Email-to-SMS allows for long messaging, whilst the SMTP version of the SMS API doesn't.