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Cannot Email - "Your Message has no valid recipients"

Doug Morrow

Doug Morrow

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I have a problem when sending Texts to Email. I have the contact set up in contacts - but it only has the email in it...no phone number. I set up a text and select the contact name from the contacts list, but when I click to send, I get the message "your Message Has NO Valid Recipients." I have checked the format of the email address and it is correct.

Now, the strange part of this is that if I hand type in the SAME email address, the text will send successfully. Additionally I am able to send text messages to phones very easily.

What am I doing wrong here?
 
Weird bug. However, once you have the conversation in a messaging app, you can just type in the message and send, so you're only typing the email address once.

You could try a different messaging app to see if they work better. Hangouts, Textra, Handcent, Chomp - see if one of those supports that use.
 
Doug Morrow said:
Data usage. I'm very limited on data, and using the text application which comes with the Android system uses less data and is easier.
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I still don't understand your rationale here. I'm a moderate emailer and Gmail shows a whopping 6.59 MB of data used in the last 20 days. What is your data threshold?

Easier?
 
The OP is contradictory. It refers to sending texts to EMail!! If you are sending a text (SMS) you would need a phone number which is probably the reason for the message.
 
Pugs1957 said:
The OP is contradictory. It refers to sending texts to EMail!! If you are sending a text (SMS) you would need a phone number which is probably the reason for the message.
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No you don't!!!

I do this all the time, I Long Press the text message, select Share, select Blue Mail and send it out, no PH# required period.
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Nova Prime, Textra, Blue Mail, Qi wireless equipped
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MacroDroid senses Screen off, turns Wifi & Data OFF
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PapaGary said:
I still don't understand your rationale here. I'm a moderate emailer and Gmail shows a whopping 6.59 MB of data used in the last 20 days. What is your data threshold?

Easier?
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My wife and I share 2 G. Yeah, not a lot. The issue is not email to email. The issue is not even Text to email. the issue is that if I use the Contacts list I get the error, BUT if I type in the email address letter by letter, it goes through (and even uses the contact list to specify who it is going to.) I'd really like to fix this.
 
This simply shouldn't be possible - the SMS protocol requires a phone number as it's a mobile network rather than an internet service.

I wonder if a phone number is linked to this email address somewhere other than your default Contacts list e.g. Facebook? That might explain why it works when entered manually.
 
"This" email? it works with any email I put in it. No, it does not have to be in my contacts list either. It has always worked this way to send a text to an email address.
 
I don't agree. I have a co-worker with an identical phone and he does not have this issue. So it is a setting, or something I'm not including in contacts or something like that.
 
Try sending an sms to yourself, locate the message and report back where it came from ie your phone # or email address
 
AZgl1500 said:
No you don't!!!

I do this all the time, I Long Press the text message, select Share, select Blue Mail and send it out, no PH# required period.
____________________________________
2 ea. Verizon Galaxy S5, 4.4.4 forever!, ART
MyPhoneExplorer lets you access a broken phone while locked
Nova Prime, Textra, Blue Mail, Qi wireless equipped
MacroDroid can help extend battery life
MacroDroid senses Screen off, turns Wifi & Data OFF
MacroDroid senses Screen on, turns WiFi & Data ON
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That's not what the OP is referring to, he is talking about creating a new SMS and sending it to someone without a phone #. You are are referring to forwarding an existing message and using Blue Mail which is an email client
 
Below are the instructions for sending email

Compose and Send Email
Compose and send email using any account you have set up on your phone. Increase your productivity by attaching files such as pictures, videos, or documents to your email messages.
  1. Touch Apps
    all_apps_icon.png
    >
    email_app_icon.png
    Email.

    – or –

    For Gmail accounts, touch Apps
    all_apps_icon.png
    >
    gmail_app_icon.png
    Gmail.
  2. Touch the account email address in the upper left corner and touch Inbox or a storage folder.
  3. Touch
    compose_gmail_message_icon.png
  4. Enter an address.

    – or –

    Type the first few letters of a contact’s name to display the name and touch the name.
  5. Enter a subject, and then compose your message.
  6. To add an attachment, a CC or BCC, or canned quick response, touch
    menu_icon.png
    .
  7. Touch
    send_icon.png
    to send the message immediately, or
    menu_icon.png
    > Save draft to send it later.
I personally think the wrong app is being used which is why email addresses are not being recognised because an email address is not a requirement for an SMS.
 
I don't know how much easier I can say this. I am NOT using EMAIL. I am using the SMS messaging Ap. When I send a message to (as an example) my work email via this text message TO MY EMAIL it arrives from NNNNNNN@mms.att.net

Now, let's understand something here: THis works. The issue is not whether I"m using the wrong Application. The issue is not whether I'm getting the emails. The issue is not the phone model.

Let's walk through this so we all understand this: First, I'm busy, and I have always used SMS messaging to send emails to myself, or to others. These are short, and they allow people to email to my phone with quick small messages too. Again, the use of the application is not the issue.

Ok, I have a listing in my contacts. It says "Doug Work Email" and it has as it's only entry my work email. "Doug@workemail.com" (No, this is not the address, of course.)

I open my SMS messaging ap. I type D in the address line. Up comes the entry "Doug Work Email" which I select. I type in my message. I hit send. I get the error above.

Next, I delete the entry "Doug Work Email" and hand type in "Doug@workemail.com" (no quotes) and I hit send. This time the message sends.

AND = looking in my SMS Ap, I see the message has sent and it says "Doug Work Email' so the contact list is finding the email address and associating it correctly. The message sent correctly and i received it correctly. Why am I getting the error only when I select the address from the contacts list is the issue here.
 
You received the message from NNNNNN@mms.att.net. The letters MMS means you are not sending SMS, you are sending MMS. MMS can be sent to phone numbers AND Email addresses. SMS can only be sent to phone numbers.
If you want to send an SMS it requires a phone number as per the instructions I pasted earlier, from the Motorola website. As the phone is expecting a telephone number I suspect when you hit the contacts button you have to type in the email address because ordinarily MMS is used to send multimedia files. I'm sure if you were attaching a multimedia file, the email address would be "live" ie you wouldn't have to retype it but as it's drafted as an SMS it expects a phone number.

Sending MMS to emails is unusual so the process is likely to be "buggy" which is what you are experiencing.
 
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