Comments on: Free SMS Text Messaging via Email

By: Martin Fitzpatrick

Martin Fitzpatrick — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:47:47 +0000

All: Thanks for the updates sent it, they have been added to the list. Apologies for the delay!

By: Jane

Jane — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 04:16:30 +0000

For australia, new zealand and united kingdom i use http://www.smsfun.com.au because it’s free and i just email number@sms.smsfun.com.au - comes as a sms to my phone and it works perfectly

By: erick

erick — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 02:45:04 +0000

thanks for the information..

By: Malstrom

Malstrom — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 00:11:06 +0000

Viraj.. you need call to Vodafone and request a email address that will be associated to you phone number… i do this. I have the email from Vodafone but i can use the Plugin correctly yet…

By: Terry

Terry — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:36:05 +0000

I second that. to avoid problems and or spam, just stick with a simple and free service like peekamo. http://peekamo.com/

By: mike

mike — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 21:38:13 +0000

Id just use peekamo. it has an inbox section and it’s free.

By: Viraj

Viraj — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 21:08:49 +0000

Ok, Cheers Martin!
Really appreciate the work you’ve put into the plugin, keep it up!

And when you said about the Vodafone e-mal addresses do you mean something like 07712345678@vodafone.com or .net?
I tried e-mailing to that address through my e-mail account but it didn’t work.

I’ll try using the number’s of some of my friend’s who are also on Vodafone and will get back to you if I get any luck.

By: Martin Fitzpatrick

Martin Fitzpatrick — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:25:19 +0000

Viraj: Thanks for checking into that for me. It is a bit strange that other people have reported it working. When I had a look myself one of the Vodafone addresses is actually the Vodafone email accounts - if you put your username in as your mobile number it will go directly here.

These are accessible from the phone, but it’s not quite the same as SMS. It’s a shame because Vodafone are a good network for everything else (customer service etc. is usually good in my experience).

I’ll keep my eyes open for an alternative method of getting through to a Vodafone mobile and let you know if I find any.

By: Viraj

Viraj — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 17:05:38 +0000

Hey Martin,
This is the reply I got from Vodafone…
“I have looked into this, and we have no Email to SMS gateway address. It is not a service that Vodafone supports. As long as you have a GPRS connection on your phone, that is as far as we can go. Any further information, you will have to contact the blog company.

I hope you manage to get this working, if at all possible…”

What puzzles me is how it is only working with some people and not others. Are those it is working with using it in the U.K. or are they using the Vodafone service in another country?