text message to email acct?

[laser310]

on my Motorola Razr, I could send a text message from my phone to an email address. I did not have any email configured on that phone. replies came to my phone as a text message.

for a variety of reasons, i would like to do the same from my iPhone...

i want to send a text message from my phone, to an email address, but i can't even enter an email address in the dialog box for where the text message is to be sent?

just to be clear, i do not want to send an email from my phone, because i want replies to come to my iphone as a text message.

can i do this from an iphone?

 

[laser310]

bump.

any ideas about this?

 

[pendo]

you will be able to do this when MMS becomes available.

You can install the mms .ipcc file that's been floating around for a while now and it will get you set up, you just won't be able to send a mms.

 

[dontwalkhand]

I do not know of any way to do this other than using the email application built into the iPhone.

I wonder if there is a way to setup a Reply-To email address (Then just put AT&T's MMS Email gateway) on the iPhone, if there is a way, then this could be a workaround...but I haven't found it.

 

[pendo]

Oops!!

My bad....I thought you could do this, but I just tried and I get the same red ! that you get when trying to send an mms. Maybe it will work when ATT turns on mms

 

[laser310]

Just to be clear...

the Razr, from which i am able to send a text to an email address _is_ an ATT phone.

so i wonder if the problem is with the network - seems more likely to be the phone..., no?

 

[laser310]

sorry to bump this again...

so, it seems that even though it _is_ possible to send a text to email over the ATT network with a Razr, it can not be done with an iPhone.

right?

i'm only asking again because it's pretty important to me...

 

[mavis]

I wonder if there is a way to setup a Reply-To email address (Then just put AT&T's MMS Email gateway) on the iPhone, if there is a way, then this could be a workaround...but I haven't found it.

We've got that here in Japan. Maybe they'll do the same in the States ... ?

 

[pendo]

sorry to bump this again...

so, it seems that even though it _is_ possible to send a text to email over the ATT network with a Razr, it can not be done with an iPhone.

right?

i'm only asking again because it's pretty important to me...

No you cannot do this right now. When AT&T turns on the mms switch you will be able