Virgin Mobile - email to SMS?

LincsGuy2005 · 15-09-2010, 13:48

Anyone know if VM offer a service which would allow me to send an email to my 'phone number@something.com' which would then be received as an SMS message on my phone?

BenMcr · 15-09-2010, 13:55

Yes, that's how MMS works

Although I think it only works if you send a message to an e-mail address first as it's a very odd address

LincsGuy2005 · 16-09-2010, 18:55

Thanks.

Googling found me an email address of <number>@vxtras.com and I emailed that yesterday. Nothing arrived (either SMS or email) to my phone and today I received the following 'bounce message' in the gmail account I sent from:

Delivery to the following recipient has been delayed:

<my number>@vxtras.com

Message will be retried for 2 more day(s)

Technical details of temporary failure:
The recipient server did not accept our requests to connect.

Anyone else had any success (or failure) with this at all?

Or do I need to call Virgin to get something activated on my account?

BenMcr · 17-09-2010, 12:59

That's not the e-mail it gives

As I said, easiest way it is to send an MMS to your e-mail address. This will then give you the right e-mail address.

Unfortunately it's not a simple one so it's not one you can tell people

Pauls9 · 17-09-2010, 14:48

Tested this on t-mobile:

Sent an MMS from my phone to my email address - arrived OK. Replied to the email - the return message arrived at the phone (no additional charge). Tried the return address a second time - got a message that this address had already been used once and that was the limit.

Seems the complicated return address is there for one-time use only (at least on t-mobile PAYG).

Anyway, it's nice to know that this facility exists. Thanks for the pointer.

BenMcr · 17-09-2010, 14:58

I actually get that as well on Virgin Contract.

It's odd as it would allow multiple replies on the same day