How to Send Text Messages Via Email to Sprint Customers

If your wireless contract includes an extra fee for text messages, use your regular email account instead to keep in touch with your friends on the Sprint network. Sprint's wireless service includes a contact address that enables you to access the text message service using an email address based on the recipient's phone number.

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    Create a new mail message and fill out the message body with the content of the text message.

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    Count the characters in the final message to be sure the total is under 160 characters. The Sprint network will display only the first 160 characters of a text message, as that's all the system supports.

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    Address the mail message to the recipient's phone number in the Sprint PCS messaging format. The email address should be the 10-digit number at the domain "messaging.sprintpcs.com." For example, if the number is 123-456-7890, the email address would be 1234567890@messaging.sprintpcs.com. Send the message.