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Date Published
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Nathalia Velez Ryan
Word count
880
Language
English
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Summary

To send an email to text, you need to find the recipient's carrier SMS or MMS gateway domain, which can be obtained by looking up the carrier's website or using a third-party lookup tool. Then, compose your message as you normally would and select whether it should be sent as an SMS or MMS based on its length and content. The email will then be converted to a text message with the recipient's phone number and carrier domain, which they can reply to in their email inbox. Alternatively, if you only have a cell phone without email capabilities, you can enter your recipient's email address in the text message app, compose your message, and send it as an email that will be converted to a text message with multimedia elements attached. For businesses, leveraging APIs such as Twilio SendGrid and Twilio Messaging APIs is a more scalable option for creating a two-way email to SMS solution.