Sending text messages (SMS) from Outlook 2016 for Mac

Question

is there a way to send SMS from Outlook 2016 for Mac (my company is using O365)?

I know it is possible in the Windows version of Outlook (https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Send-and-receive-text-messages-SMS-8a8c38d5-a197-4df7-929b-08c5e259a0ca, how about Mac

Answer 1

There are some commercial services like Red Oxygen with a 15 day trial for testing, which works from inside Outlook.

Another commercial approach is aspsms which does Email to SMS from inside Outlook.

A possibly free solution (untested by me) might be to install Microsoft's Skype for Outlook.com. One can send an SMS from Skype, but I do not know how well this works from Outlook.

Answer 2

I have bad news for you. In office 2016 Microsoft has discontinued the Outlook mobile service (SMS): https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2016-outlook/outlook-2016-sms-program/5624c906-ed0c-49f1-ad9f-c3ce0f760633. Im pretty sure 3rd party will appear.

It was possible with outlook 2011 for mac short video how https://www.lynda.com/Outlook-Mac-tutorials/Sending-text-SMS-messages-from-Outlook/80853/82547-4.html.

In short, the idea was to send email to your mobile number and with the correct suffix for your provider.

Answer 3

Depending on how many different SMS recipients you are sending to, you can send them via the carrier provided service.

For example, I send SMS to myself and my wife often via outlook email using their carrier provided email to SMS address. This is simple since I know our carriers.

You can google "email to sms verizon tmobile etc..." to get carrier specific connector addresses. Example: [e-mail]

Here is a list of some carriers and their SMS/MMS gateway domains: https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/how-to-send-e-mail-to-sms-text/

If I were sending to many people, this may not be a good solution. I have used this well for server alerting to a small group of team members via sms, or sending a reminders to myself or wife.