How to Send Receive Free Text Messages for Telus Users

1. Log into your email account. If you do not have a current email account for sending and receiving emails there are many free services such as Gmail and Yahoo mail available online for you to create your own free email account.
2. Compose a new email. In the 'TO' address field, where you write the email address you wish to send a message type the ten digit phone number you wish to text followed by @msg.telus.com. for example, if you wanted to text the phone number 555-123-4567 you would enter 5551234567@msg.telus.com into the 'TO' address bar.
3. Compose your message. Remember, text messages are usually restricted to 160 characters or less. Make sure you keep this in mind so your recipient does not get their message cut short because of text length. Press the send button and your email will be sent as a text message to the owner of the cell number. If they send a message back it will show up in your email in-box as a new email. You may reply to the received email and send another text by simply replying to the received message.