Email to Cell Phone Text Message

 
From: "Carl G. Kuczun" <ckuczun@PROTECTED>
In-Reply-To: Re: Slowdowns again
Date: February 20th 2010
I was asked today to see if I could have emails also sent to cell phones as text messages. A perfectly reasonable request since we all live by our cell phones. I know that I can send an email to my cell phone by appending the cell phone carrier's text messaging email domain to my phone number. For example, if I send an email to the address 18005551212@PROTECTED it will be delivered by Verizon as a text message to the phone. Every carrier has their own text message domain. Here is a partial list:
 

Alltel:        phonenumber@PROTECTED
AT&T:          phonenumber@PROTECTED

Cingular:      phonenumber@PROTECTED
Nextel:        phonenumber@PROTECTED
Qwest:         phonenumber@PROTECTED

Sprint:        phonenumber@PROTECTED
T-Mobile:      phonenumber@PROTECTED
US Cellular:   phonenumber@PROTECTED

Verizon:       phonenumber@PROTECTED
Virgin Mobile: phonenumber@PROTECTED
 
So - how could this be implemented using DadaMail? I would like to add a subscriber field where people could enter their cell phone number if they would also like to receive text messages. There are some problems:
 
1) The phone carrier would would also need to be identified. Can a subscriber field be a combo box where a list of providers would be presented?
 
2) The carrier text message domain would need to be appended to the phone number to make the "email address."
 
3) Can a single list entry have an email also sent to another email address from a subscriber field? I could manually add the phone "email address" as a second entry in the list, but that raises subscription and unsubscription issues.
 
This might be outside the responsibilities of DadaMail, but I thought I would start my quest by presenting the issue here. Any thoughts on this? Are there other ways to send emails to text messages?
 
Carl K.
 

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