Texting is rapidly becoming the primary way of communicating. Working in an email environment creates challenges for sending links or messages to someone’s cell phone. We found this handy listing for simple ways of sending text messages from the internet or from your computer to phones. These email addresses act as direct links to a carriers’ SMS gateways.
Source: Martin Fitzpatrick.
Text messages can be sent and received by email. It can be done online using Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail and so on or you can use your email client like MS Outlook.