E-Mail by Phone
Your incoming ping formatted Email2Phone email address will be as follows:
ping.<iping user name>@iping.com.
For example, if your iPing user name is "newtech" then your ping formatted
incoming Email2Phone address will be ping.newtech@iping.com.
EMAIL FORWARDING
You will receive a forwarded copy of all incoming Email2Phone messages to
your forwarding email address.
REPLY WITH VOICE
When you receive an inbound Email2Phone message from one of your
contacts, you will be prompted to record a reply voice message on the
phone. Immediately after the phone call, a reply email will be
automatically generated and sent to your contact's email address with a
link to the sound file that contains your voice reply message.
You can also send outgoing Email2Phone messages. Just send an outgoing email to a ping formatted email address that contains the phone number that you want to call. See COMPOSE EMAIL below.
COMPOSE EMAIL
1)
Put your phone number in the "TO:" field with the following ping format:
ping.xxx-xxx-xxxx@iping.com Ex: ping.212-000-1111@iping.com
Do not put parenthesis in the phone number. Do not put spaces in the
phone number. You may send multiple iPing Email2Phone messages at once by
entering multiple ping formatted email addresses, each separated by a
semi-colon.
2)
Give the email a subject by filling in the email "SUBJECT" field. Ex:
Email 2 Phone Demo
3)
Type your message in the BODY of your email.
Ex: Hello Kathy,
I'll be finishing up early today so I'll be available around noon.
Is that a good time for you?
Please reply with your voice after the beep sound. Thanks.
-Mark
4)
Send the email
CONFIRM REQUEST
1)
Immediately after the Email2Phone message is sent. You will receive a
Message Activation link via email.
2)
Click on the Message Activation link to activate your outgoing Email2Phone
message. This is an optional feature available to ensure that you
authorize all outgoing Email2Phone requests generated from your iPing
account.
3)
The iPing system will make an automated phone call to the phone number
contained in the ping formatted email address.
RECEIVE PHONE CALL
1)
Once the phone call is answered by your contact, the text message that you
typed in the BODY of the Email2Phone will be spoken via Text-to-Speech
conversion.
2)
After the spoken voice message is heard, the receiver of the call is given
the option to reply to the message by recording a voice mail message.
3)
You will receive an email alert from iPing.com with the SUBJECT: "You Got
Voicemail" A reply email will be generated automatically that contains a
link to your iPing voicemail box on a web page. There, you can listen to
your reply voice messages via the web.
REPLY WITH VOICE
When you send an outgoing Email2Phone message to a contact, your contact will be prompted to record a reply voice message on the phone. After the message is recorded by your contact, a reply email alert will be automatically generated and sent to your email address from iPing.com with the SUBJECT: "You Have Voicemail". This reply email will contain a link to your iPing voicemail box. There, you can listen to your contact's reply voice message via the web. iPing Corporate clients can also dial in to listen to voice messages via the telephone.