How to send SMS from Gmail

It is quick and easy to send SMS from Gmail using the WinSMS email to SMS service.

In order to use the E-mail to SMS gateway, you must have a WinSMS account. If you do not have an account, please click here to register. 

Authentication:

To be able to send SMS messages via e-mail (SMTP), you must first add your e-mail address to the authentication list in the WinSMS Client Zone. 

To do this, log into the Client Zone here and then click on "My Profile":

Click on the “Email to SMS” tab.

Click on the “Add Email Address” button.

Type in your Gmail address you are going to be sending messages from and click on “Send Security Code”

Click the "OK" button on the confirmation window that follows:

Find the e-mail with the security code that was sent to your Gmail address, enter the security code and click on "Add E-mail Address"

Click the "OK" button on the confirmation window that follows:

Click on the "OK" button at the bottom of the window and then click "OK" again in the confirmation window that pops up:

A pop-up box will confirm that your profile settings were updated. Click on "OK" to close the window:

Congratulations! You have set up e-mail to SMS. Now go to  www.gmail.com and log in with your Gmail account information.

Click on the "Compose" button in the top left-hand corner. 

Type the cellnumber@winsms.net into the To: field. You can send to multiple recipients by using a semicolon (;) as a separator.

The subject field is not required. You can leave it blank or you can use it for a message reference.

Type your SMS message in the body of the email. The gateway will send the first 160 characters of the e-mail as the SMS message, but if you have enabled long messages under "My Profile" in the Client Zone, it will send the first 918 characters of the e-mail (taking into account the symbols that count as 2 characters. For more information on symbols that count as 2 characters, click here.). Click here to learn how to enable long message support, which will send 918 characters of the e-mail.

Click on the "Send" button. 

Congratulations! You have just sent an SMS from Gmail.

Scheduling:

If you want to schedule the message for later delivery, include the date/time in the subject line in the following format:

Subject: YYYYMMDDHHMM

YYYYMMDDHHMM represents the date and the time the message should be sent, for example:

Subject: 202211271500

In this example the message will be scheduled for 27 November 2022 at 15:00 (3pm).

Have you registered your own WinSMS account? Sign up for FREE here. 

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