Can someone send messages from my Yahoo!Mail account?

Has someone created a gateway function that allows a service like Twilio to recognize and send messages from an iMessage account to another iMessage account, or BBM to BBM?

• It obviously would reduce the costs tremendously and provide a scalable solution for heavy volume SMS based services.

• Answer:

  Those are generally closed systems. iMessage does not provide an API, does not allow third parties to conenct to the network, and does not allow automated messaging as part of the terms of service. BBM, Line, Whatsapp and others have similar restrictions. You could possibly reverse engineer the protocol they're using assuming there's no encrpytion going on. Then you could use that protocol to act like a regular client. But since it's not a published API, expect the protocol details to change without notice, breaking your stuff. The compaines might even do it regularly in order to thwart someone from building alternative clients (see the IM third party client wars of the late 90s). Your sending volumes and patterns won't match a human and will get detected at some point. This may trigger someone breaking the protocol to break you. It might cause them to ban your iMessage/BBM/whatever account. It might cause them to block your messages silently. It might cause them to pursue legal action against you.