E-Mail without Data Plan or add on?
I have a family shared plan, and 2 of the lines are on blackberry 6230's that I bought off ebay. So they are just phone plans with 500 text messages/mo. I can send email through text messages, but when I try to "send email" it wont sent, it just says "pending". Is there a way to get the blackberrys to send email without getting a data plan?
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Yes and no. If you're setting the message up as an email then no because the BB will attempt to connect to the data network which you don't have access to without the data plan. However, the way to send email via sms is as follows:
-Open a new text message
-For the destination phone number, enter 500
-start the message with the email address you'd like to send to
-put a space
-then put your actual message.
That should get it where it needs to go. The only downside to doing it that way, is you're limited to messages of 160 characters or less. Hence SMS. The email address that people see the message coming from is your 10-digit phone number @tmomail.net. example: [email protected]. If they send an email back to that addr...
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-Open a new text message
-For the destination phone number, enter 500
-start the message with the email address you'd like to send to
-put a space
-then put your actual message.
That should get it where it needs to go. The only downside to doing it that way, is you're limited to messages of 160 characters or less. Hence SMS. The email address that people see the message coming from is your 10-digit phone number @tmomail.net. example: [email protected]. If they send an email back to that addr...
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