Just for people who don't know what Google is for...

Just remember to not exceed 160 (IIRC) characters. Around two-years-ago,
I used a rule that forwarded important mail to both my
usernamer@sprintpcs.com and phonenumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com
addresses. The text message would merely arrive truncated, if the
original email was large. But I could still read enough to know if I
should log into the Vision email service to read the whole message.

However, I began receiving bounce messages from the
messaging.sprintpcs.com server due to exceeding message length. This was
not consistent, as nearly every email I received exceeded the allowed
length; yet they came over truncated. But eventually it seemed I was
receiving a bounce message every time (except, obviously, for truly
short email).

So I stopped forwarding the mail to the text message address, and
changed my SPCS email options to alert me of incoming mail. I can at
least see who the sender is, which helps in determining if logging into
Vision is warranted. YMMV.

P.S. - I just sent myself a text message containing about 1000
characters and, sure enough, it came over truncated--immediately (within
5-seconds). I then sent a message containing about 5000 characters and
another with 150 characters plus a 750 KB attachment. It's been ten
minutes and I still have not received those messages (nor have I
received any bounce messages--yet). I guess I'll leave my settings the
way they are for now.

    I usually check all my mails with my phone once a day, including Sprint
PCS mail, Earthlink mail, Yahoo mail. and aol mail.  If they are going
to punch in my phone number to get to @messaging.sprintpcs.com, then
they could just as well dial my number and leave voice mail.

##########@messaging.sprintpcs.com should work. Try it with a small
message, and make sure it *is* text (not HTML). If the message is to
large, you might not get it.

That definitely will not work. First, the sprintpcs.com address is for
email, not text messages. You will need to log into Vision on the phone
to receive that email (and this address accepts much larger emails than
the text message address). Second, the format for SPCS email is
username@sprintpcs.com. Your username is not your phone number. By
default it's usually your first initial followed by your last name, and
if that would conflict with another user's name, a number. So if your
name was Paul Brown, your username might be pbrown74. Email would need
to be sent to pbrown74@sprinptcs.coom (I deliberately misspelled
Sprint's domain name in case that address actually exists).

That generally means you can receive them from
yournumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com.

I'm assuming you mean to your normal email address. If so, that's not
really relevant to your text messaging problem.

I'm not sure I would believe those CSRs (ya' think?). Just make sure you
type your number correctly in messaging.sprintpcs.com address. It should
be 10 digits--no dashes and no 1 before the number.

    That phone is not on the Sprint PCS web site anymore so I can not check
the specific features, but the accessories section lists it as a voice
phone, not a Vision phone.  IIRC it should not send or receive any
e-mail.  The csrs were right about that.  IIRC it should receive text
messages from the Sprint PCS web site (from the opening page, click on
the "Send a text message" link at the bottom of the page), and from
Sprint PCS Wireless Webb phones.  I was not aware and was surprised to
hear that it could send a text message to an email address.

You've seen some excellent replies here. I'd add one thing. If you trying
sending a TM via Outlook, Outlook will also send header information within
the TM and you could be exceeding the allowable # of characters with the
header information included.

If all you want to do is send a quick & short TM, i.e.: 36 characters or
less and that's including spaces between words, send a TM via Outlook via
###########@messaging.sprintpcs.com  (xxx... is your telephone number) and
just put the message in the subject line. It works as I just did it, and one
does not need to open Vision to read it.

Bob

pb, look for another post from me in another thread.  There's a setting
for this at the Sprint PCS web site.  And a big, wet, fart-smelling
raspberry to the techs for not even mentioning it.  There's a tool we
used when I worked there called the "BMG".  We had a GUI for it that
including the same three check boxes you'll find on the web site.  
Somehow, I doubt they even looked.  The 3588i has SMS, and email
xxxxxxxxxx@messaging.sprintpcs.com works for any phone with SMS *or* the
older Shortmail.