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Cannot Email - "Your Message has no valid recipients"

If you save the contact with the email address in the phone number field it will work as you want. I just created a contact that way and was able to send/receive with no errors (I'm using Hangouts but that shouldn't matter). Of course, you may need to create duplicate contacts if they have phone numbers too, but it will work. Maybe not what you are looking for but a work-around anyway.

My sometimes overly simplistic thinking at work.
 
Where am I not making this clear? The issue is not with SMS or MMS or email or the model of the phone. It is in how the contacts are used to send via the Text messaging ap. Can someone please take a look at my last post and answer that? And it's not "buggy" in that it works fine for others.
 
Doug Morrow said:
It is in how the contacts are used to send via the Text messaging ap.
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What do you have in the phone number field for the contact? Text apps use that field to auto-fill. Texting is normally done via phone number so it pulls the phone number. If you put an email address in that field it will send the text to the email. If the field is blank there is no valid recipient, it isn't going to read the email field.
 
If you read the user manual the app expects a phone number for both texts and mms not an email address. Clementine offered you a work around so why not try it?
If you won't i would suggest you discuss with your colleague how their phone is set up because my guess is they are using a third party app,
 
Clementine_3 said:
What do you have in the phone number field for the contact? Text apps use that field to auto-fill. Texting is normally done via phone number so it pulls the phone number. If you put an email address in that field it will send the text to the email. If the field is blank there is no valid recipient, it isn't going to read the email field.
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I see what you mean, but there is no way to put the email address in the phone field. I will check a bit closer.
 
I have a Moto X (2013) and use Gmail for contacts. I was able to create a contact and put an email address in the phone number field. It worked perfectly. What are you using for contacts? Not sure why you aren't able to? As I said earlier, you may need to make duplicate contacts if you have them with phone numbers as well. So you would have a contact for John with the phone info and one for John Text for email in the phone field for texting.
 
Doug Morrow said:
Where am I not making this clear? The issue is not with SMS or MMS or email or the model of the phone. It is in how the contacts are used to send via the Text messaging ap. Can someone please take a look at my last post and answer that? And it's not "buggy" in that it works fine for others.
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I understand exactly what you're talking about - it used to be a very common thing in the feature phone days - and you could email to sms too.

I had it on Sprint. I used it very often. Phone model didn't matter, as you noted - because the carrier was managing the routing so long as you used its email address conventions.

Here's the old list, defunct, of the mail to sms gateway addresses to prove it existed (at least I can prove that part for you) -

http://www.emailtextmessages.com/


First they stopped advertising it, then they changed the email address part, and eventually phased it out altogether, so far as I know. I found the Sprint site with one of their reps providing support as recently as 2013.

So - it's not just you.

Given the feature's provenance I'm surprised that you've had it this long.

While you're still aware of it working for others, perhaps they are phasing it out and you were hit first. I have no idea. It stopped working for me on Sprint before it stopped working for my wife and then the kids.

I know I haven't provided a solution but I'm with you - you're not crazy here.
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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.
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If I had to guess it's because the text app has gone overboard trying to help you put in a phone number, and looks the other way when it's a contacts entry.

Have you tried other text apps?
 
I still have an active line with a feature phone (Samsung Convoy) on it. it has a similar feature but according to Verizon (my carrier) the service has been unsupported and unmaintained since March of 2014. i used it to receive emails, but it was extremely hit and miss. they told me that it was only a matter of time before it ceased to work altogether.
 
Clementine_3 said:
Yeah, I still have a friend who has a feature phone with Tracfone. She sends MMS/pictures this way. It's not totally dead yet but seems to be dying.

I was only trying to suggest a way to it without too much hassle :)
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I think you offered a good work around but some don't have the courtesy or manners to say "thank you".
 
I still think the Textra SMS app (and others) just sharing the text via an email app is easier, and maybe just as fast (some cases faster, don't have to type out the email address again). But, that is just how I do it, to each their own.
 
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