Email to/from SMS

Send and receive text messages through your email

Email to/from SMS allows you to send and receive text messages directly from your email without installing any software.

How to set up email to SMS

1 - Log into your inMobile account, go to “Email to text”.

Screenshot of the platform showing the navigation opened with the Email to text link highlighted.

2 - Click “Create email to text”.

Screenshot of the Email to text page with the "Create email to text" button highlighted.

3 - Here you’ll need to whitelist either a domain, or a specific email address. If you’re whitelisting a domain, you’ll need to prepend it the an @ sign. For example: “@inmobile.com”. Please note, that a domain can only be whitelisted on one account at a time. Click “next”.

Screenshot of the system showing the section where you can whitelist either a domain, or a specific email address.

4 - Specify sender name. It is possible to use a fixed sender name or use the content of the subject field of the sent email. The sender name will appear at the top of the text message on the mobile user’s phone. To use 2-way SMS, you must use a virtual phone number as sender name.

Screenshot of the system showing where you can specify the sendername.

5 - Click “Advanced” to customize settings.

6 - After this is done, you can send an email to the following address: “[email protected]” where “MSISDN” is the number of your recipient. An MSISDN consists of both a country code, and a phonenumber. For example: if you want to send a message to the Danish number 12345678, you would have to send and email to “[email protected].

How to set up SMS to email

1 - Log into your inMobile account, navigate to “Text workflows”.

Screenshot of the system showing the navigation with "Text workflows" highlighted.

2 - Order a virtual number.

Screenshot of the system showing where to click to order a virtual number.
Screenshot of the system showing the interface when you order a virtual number.

3 - Click “New setup”.

Screenshot of the system highlighting the button "New setup" in the top right corner of the interface.

4 - Click “Email notification”

Screenshot of the system showing many different workflows with the "Email notification" workflow highlighted.

5 - Select the virtual number and click “Choose”.

Screenshot of the system showing where you can choose a virtuel number in a dropdown.

6 - Specify whether the mobile user must start the message with a specific word.

Screenshop of the system showing where you can choose a sub-keyword / a optional word.

7 - Provide the email you want to be notified on and specify the text in the subject field and email and click “Create email notification”.

Screenshot of the system showing where you can choose the email you want to be notified on and specify the text in the subject field and email.

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