As well as enabling you to send and receive SMS text messages within your browser or on your PC desktop FASTSMS also provides facilities for sending and receiving text messages by email.

And remember wherever in the world you are, you can send and receive text messages provided you have access to email.

You can send a 160 character text message to any mobile phone from within any email client, including Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express, Eudora, AOL and Pegasus using the following format.

Enter the recipient's number in the "To" field of your email message composer. The number must be formatted as, 447890123456@email2sms.fastsms.co.uk, where 07890 123456 is the mobile number you want to text.

Enter who the message is from in the subject of the email message (This is the message label that appears on the recipient’s handset and must be no longer than 11 alpha numeric characters).

The message body of the email must be in plain text format & include your username on the first line, password on the second line and sms message on the third.

Once complete send the message as you would a normal email message.

This email will be received immediately as a text message by the phone specified.

The email2sms service is also perfectly suited to automated applications such as server failure notification, environmental alert systems and personnel alerts. For examples of this type of use please view our case studies pages. For more information on how you can add SMS functionality to your systems please view Velocity Direct for developers.