How do I send an Outlook email to a text message?

Hello Diane,

What I was sending was plain text. And vzwpix is still valid. I think I have figured it out. The issue is actually with my carrier. I use a Verizon MVNO called Red Pocket mobile and apparently they do not offer a email to text service. That's OK. I was going to use it to direct email replies to my cell phone as a text. I don't need it that badly.

First, my carrier told me they did not offer that service and second, I am able to send emails to friends cell phones as texts. So, I am pretty confident that is the problem.

Thanks for trying to help me.

Try switching to plain text - or use vtext.com. I tried it yesterday and the plain text message arrived but not the html - but it was really slow, an hour or more.

I thought I read that vzwpix is no longer valid but a quickie google search only finds instructions on how to use it.

Hello Diane,

Thank you for trying to help. Yes, those were my settings. I tried it again and got the same error. Here are my settings, what I sent, and the error I received when it failed.

My settings -

My message sent from my Outlook account-

The error I received-

Does this make any sense to you?

Let me add something that may help you. I am able to send texts to other people from my outlook account, but for some reason I cannot send an Outlook email to either my cell phone or google voice numbers.

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Hi, I'm Diane and will be happy to help you today.

Are you using plain text format?

The setting in the screenshot should work -

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask.

-- Diane

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