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email to sms gateway... not active
Since switching from Rogers to Videotron, I've stopped recieving texts from a company that uses an email to sms gateway. After some research and being on the phone with videotron, it seems they had o...
sadly, Videotron doesn't have an email to sms gateway... this has been the case for a long time.
If you need this, you will have to consider switching to a different provider.
that said, for my alarm system, I'm using my iCloud email address... which is as fast as what I was getting with email-to-sms on Fido...
Thanks for the reply. You're right, it's really kinda sad.
I'm liking everything about Videotron, but if the want to excel in the mobil phone space, they really need to offer all the features that the big player do.
Something like an email to sms gateway seems like such a simply thing, doesn't make sense why they wouldn't have one.
Seems like the frame work is in place since I can send text from the webpage with in the customer service portion of the site: https://www.videotron.com/client/residentiel/secur/sansfil3G/sendSMS.do
one of the reason they do not offer this service is probably spam related...
when I was with Fido, I was receiving regurarily spam through the email to sms gateway...
Videotron's spam filtering is so bad that I wouldn't be surprised that the email to sms gateway would be unreliable because of this.
Anonyme wrote:one of the reason they do not offer this service is probably spam related...
when I was with Fido, I was receiving regurarily spam through the email to sms gateway...
Videotron's spam filtering is so bad that I wouldn't be surprised that the email to sms gateway would be unreliable because of this.
Almost all other carriers have this.
