How to Use Your Yahoo! to Text an AT&T Member
Yahoo! gives you two different ways to send a text to an AT&T phone. You can do so from Yahoo! Messenger, which only requires you to use the phone's number. If you choose to send the text from Yahoo! Mail instead, you must also include a suffix that indicates that the recipient phone is an AT&T phone. Whichever method you choose, any responses to your text come by that same method. If you send a text via email, a response appears in your email inbox. If you use Yahoo! Messenger instead, responses appear as part of a Messenger conversation.
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Instructions
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Yahoo! Messenger
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Open Yahoo! Messenger and sign in.
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Click "Actions" and then "Send SMS Message" from the list of options that appears. Click the "Other Contact" tab on the new window that opens.
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Type your friend's AT&T cell phone number into the blank field in this window, then click "OK." If your friend is already a Yahoo! contact and you have his cell phone number listed as part of his contact information, simply right-click his name in Yahoo! Messenger and click "Send SMS Message."
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Compose your desired text message in the new Messenger window that opens. When you are done, click "Send" to send the message to your friend's AT&T cell phone.
Yahoo! Mail
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Sign in to your Yahoo! Mail account.
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Click the "Compose Message" button near the top of the left panel in Yahoo! Mail.
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Type your friend's cell phone number into the "To" field, followed by "@txt.att.net." For example, address the email to "5558767654@txt.att.net" if your friend's AT&T cell phone number is 555-876-7654.
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Compose your Yahoo! email as you normally would. When you are ready to send it to your friend's cell phone, click "Send."
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