¿ªÔÆÌåÓý

  1. GroupManagersForum
  2. Messages
Single Messages Topics Expanded Polls

Re: SMS / Phone Text

Mike Vorkapich
 

So the quick answer to this is that it works. If you add someone as a user through the normal process but use phonenumber@carrier then they will receive text messages when a post is made. However, you cannot reply via text, it gets rejected by Groups.io. I assume because it's missing all the email headers. You can, however, click on the "View/Reply Online" link and reply in a mobile web browser.

Michael Vorkapich

On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 12:34 PM, Mike Vorkapich <mvorkapich@...> wrote:
OK, thanks again. We may give it a try.

Michael Vorkapich

On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 12:32 PM, Shal Farley <shals2nd@...> wrote:
Michael,

> Do you know if using email to text would work? ie
> 1234567890@... ?

I don't know.

It has been ages (when I owned a basic flip-phone) since I've tried using a carrier's SMS gateway with an email list (a Yahoo Group). I seem to recall that I made it work, sort-of, but it wasn't very useful. Something like the 160 character limit was all consumed by the email address and other stuff, leaving no room for the message text itself.

In Groups.io the first challenge would be getting the gateway address confirmed - you'd have to be able to reply to the confirmation message and I think that was a sticking point. Or, if you have a premium group you could avoid that problem by using Direct Add.

If you run the experiment and get a useful result that would be a nice how-to article to post here, and/or in GMF's Wiki.

Shal
Join [email protected] to automatically receive all group messages.