How to send SMS via Mail2SMS

Mail2SMS is the system to send SMS when receiving email messages with a simple initial setting.

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Initial Setting

  1. Log in to your account and select Mail2SMS Users from the left side menu.
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  2. Click Add Mail2SMS User button at the top right
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  3. Set each item on the screen and click the Create button
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1 Mail2SMS User Email The email address that you will send the messages from
2 Sender Will be displayed as the sender of the SMS on the recipient’s phone
What does SenderID do?
3 DKIM Email security is determined before sending against DKIM, SPF, and DMARC standards. SMS will be sent only when the judgment result exceeds the criteria (PASS/FAIL/GRAY) set here. For details, please refer to the page of each standard.
Sample of judgment and setting
4 SPF
5 DMARC

A Tip You can test your message before doing the actual sends. to know the judgment, please send your message via email to verdict@acrt-mail.jp using your Mail2SMS email address, the result will be returned to the email.

This is the end of the initial settings.

The initial setting limits one account to having one Mail2SMS user. Please contact helpdesk in case you need to create more Mail2SMS users.

Let's send an email to send an SMS now.

How to send SMS

Prepare a new email message from the email account set in above

Sender Use the set email address
Recipient 819012345678@mail2sms.xoxzo.com (See (1) below)
Subject Blank or write anything
Message Body Message body of the SMS
The character limit for the text is the same as when sending standard SMS. See here for more detail.

(1)
For the recipient's email address, please enter the SMS destination mobile phone number and @mail2sms.xoxzo.com without spaces. When entering the recipient's mobile phone number, please keep the following in mind:

  • Please use half-width + for the first character of the destination phone number.
  • For sending within Japan, please continue with the country code 81.
  • Destination telephone numbers that can be used for domestic transmissions are those beginning with 070, 080, and 090. When entering the above, omit the first 0 (zero) and enter it after the country code.
  • The destination phone number will be 13 digits. Please note that an error will occur if the length is longer or shorter.

Example) If the destination phone number is 080-1234-5678: Enter +818012345678.
If you register the address-book with the mail sending software you use, you can manage it by the name of the recipient and use it conveniently.

email mode
In the case of text mode / HTML mixed mode, the text is sent as SMS text. In HTML mode, text extraction may result in a different result than intended by the sender. Please be sure to send a test in advance and check the extraction results in the delivered SMS.

Bulk sending
If you send a large number of emails to MailSMS in a short period of time, the number of emails will be limited and SMS-sending errors may occur. Please consider TPS when sending emails.

Please contact (help@xoxzo.com) for any questions.




Mail Security Standard

Please refer to the tables below to set the mail security standards.
Also, you can test your message before doing the actual sends. to know the judgment, please send your message via email to verdict@acrt-mail.jp using your Mail2SMS email address, the result will be returned to the email.


DKIM


DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) is a method that uses electronic signatures to check whether the sender of the email has been spoofed. By attaching an electronic signature to the email sent by the sender and verifying it when the recipient receives the email, spoofing and falsification of the email can be detected.
how to set DKIM security at MailSMS
Please set one of the following values as the minimum criteria for DKIM judgment to allow SMS sending.
PASS: Send SMS only for emails that pass DKIM authentication.
GRAY: In addition to PASS, send SMS without DKIM signature.
FAIL: In addition to PASS and GRAY, SMS will also be sent for verification failure.

DMARC

DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance) is used by the sender to declare the recommended action when the receiver fails to authenticate to DNS as a DMARC policy, and to determine whether the receiver is spoofing when the authentication fails.
how to set DMARC security at MailSMS
Please set one of the following values as the minimum criteria for DMARC judgment to allow SMS sending.
PASS: Send SMS only for emails that pass DMARC authentication.
GRAY: In addition to PASS, also send SMS messages where at least one SPF or DKIM passed authentication, but the sending domain has no DMARC policy or uses the p=none policy.
FAIL: In addition to PASS and GRAY, SMS will also be sent for verification failure.

SPF

SPF (Sender Policy Framework) is a method to check whether the sender of the mail received using the address is spoofed. Pre-register her IP address of the server used when sending mail as her SPF record in the sender's DNS. When the recipient receives the email, it checks it against the sender's SPF record to determine if it's spoofed.

how to set SPF security at MailSMS
Please set one of the following values as the minimum criteria for SPF judgment to allow SMS sending.
PASS: Send SMS only for emails that pass SPF authentication.
GRAY: In addition to PASS, send SMS even if the SPF policy does not exist.
FAIL: In addition to PASS and GRAY, SMS will also be sent for verification failure.



Sample of judgment and settings

Sample of PASS the judgment

Email Judgment Result User setting SMS judgment
DKIM PASS PASS PASS
SPF GRAY PASS PASS
DMARC GRAY GRAY PASS


Sample of FAIL the judgement

Email Judgment Result User setting SMS judgment
DKIM GRAY PASS FAIL
SPF GRAY PASS PASS
DMARC GRAY GRAY PASS


SMS will not be sent if even one of the three criteria for sending SMS fails.