Email to send text message to yourself?

Hello,
With sprint I was able to email to [email protected] and it was sent to my phone as a text message.
Is this possible with an ATT iphone plan? I have not had any success.
Thanks!

Interestingly, the message formatting is slightly different between the two addresses. If you use mycingular, you get a more formatted texting (i.e., TO, FRM, SUBJ). If you use the att one, you get a raw text, no formatting. FWIW...

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