Email to text to accept or decline receiving notifications

[Steve_Martinek]

I’m attempting to setup my email to text. Mainly due to the limitations of using SMS within Sharptool.io.

I was trying to activate my email in the Verizon format of **********@vtext.com.
Received a text from noreply@sharptools.io indicating to click on the link in the text to accept or decline the notifications.

However, the link was incomplete. Showed as https://sharptools. Error when clicked was sharptools DNS address could not be found. Diagnosing the problem.

Any suggestions?

[josh]

Did it potentially come across as two messages?

Keep in mind that the email-to-sms translation happens by Verizon. We intentionally keep the email verification message as short as possible to keep it under a standard 140-160 character limit, but it’s still up to the email-to-sms gateway provider to actually format and deliver the message.

Can you share a screenshot of the message? Feel free to redact any sensitive info.

@Steve_Martinek

Mainly due to the limitations of using SMS within SharpTools

Are you referring to the undocumented 1000 message limit discussed here? Are you actually sending that many messages monthly? I’m trying to understand why 1000 SMS messages would feel like a restriction or how the messages are being used as perhaps there’s a better approach?

I can’t remember if I shared it already, but the following post might also be helpful:

More than 1 cellular phone

You can use the Twilio SMS integration if you want to have multiple destination phone numbers as recipients. You would need to setup your own paid Twilio account for that (help article). Alternatively, there’s a bunch of other notification options available: Email - most modern email services push emails near instantaneously Pushover - popular solution that works with iOS and Android and supports a larger volume of messages with ‘realtime’ push Pushbullet - similar to Pushover, but Android on…