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Email to SMS is particularly useful in two distinct scenarios. Firstly it is ideal for use in legacy software applications where it would be difficult to add SMS messaging capabilities either because the software won’t permit it or the development resource is not available. In which case, provided the software has the ability to send emails these can be converted via email-to-sms from an email to a text message. Secondly, in some organisations, workers are not given access to the internet via browsers so cannot access our browser-based platform NetMessenger. Instead they can use their email client to formulate, send and receive SMS text messages.

Email to SMS is easy to set up, is secure and offers many advanced features. As well as sending text messages, inbound SMS can be made available through use of a Virtual Mobile Number associated with the email account.

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