Email To SMS

Whitelisting Emails And Requirements

To use this service, you need to whitelist your company email address or an entire domain,

at your account dashboard for sending SMSes.

 

Requirements


To successfully deliver your email as an SMS you have to verify that you are the owner of this domain for proper authentication:

Your whitelisted emails or domain, need to pass domain TXT check.

 

TXT Record DNS

TXT records are a type of Domain Name System (DNS) record that contains text information for sources outside of your domain. You add these records to your domain settings.

We will use TXT Record DNS to verify your domain.

 

Whitelisting Emails

To whitelist emails and domains, On your Dashboard go to Account Settings:

 

Then go to the Whitelist section and add an email like me@example.com or an entire domain e.g. *@example.com if your whole organization should be able to send messages this way, make sure you are using a valid and live domain or email address.

After adding an email or an entire domain in the Email Whitelist field, Click on the Save button:

Then click on the Domin Verification

FloppySend will provide you with the text name and text value.

Add TXT Name and TXT Value to your domain DNS record.

Once you add that, our system will do the verification and check the record, if it's passed then you are ready to use the service.

 

If you whitelist *@example.com no other accounts will be able to use this domain, this is for security reasons and our customer protections, we not allowed any free domains such as @gmail.com, @outlook.com, etc., after you add your email/domain, kindly inform our support team to whitelisted also at our system firewall.

 

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Sending An SMS From Email

Sending an Email to SMS is straightforward, all you need to do is send to the phone number of your recipient and write your email text body (SMS Text).

Recipients

Sending SMS messages is a simple as sending an email to the: phonenumber@email2sms.floppy.ai

For Example:

46743XXXXXX@email2sms.floppy.ai

Sender ID

Your sender ID is controlled by the default email from name at your email settings found under “POP Account Settings”, “Your Name”, make sure (from name), not more than 11 Char, for email 2 SMS,

SMS sender name length limited to 11 Char.

If you wish to set a default sender ID, On your Dashboard go to Account Settings:

Then at SMS Defaults section add a Default Sender:

This will overwrite your from-name parameter while you sending an email to SMS.

 

SMS length

SMSes send on this service are limited to 1 SMS part, equal to 160 characters, and only accepting text type English char. this is a measure to try and prevent unintentionally long SMSes send when using email clients like e.g. Gmail,

where the mails are kept as conversation threads SMSes send on this service are limited to 1 SMS part, equal to 160 characters, and only accepting text type English char.

This is a measure to try and prevent unintentionally long SMSes send when using email clients like e.g. Gmail, where the mails are kept as conversation threads.

After you sent your email, you may check your SMS account sent log to check the sent status for each number.

The system will check the received emails and send them as SMS messages in each 1 min interval, so when you sent your email, your message could take 1 min +/- to appear in your sent log.

 

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