Disclosed are a system and a method for sending a short text message to both a mobile phone and a mail server. The system includes at least one base station for providing wireless network nodes of the first and second mobile phones; a short message service center for receiving a short message from the first mobile phone and sending the received short message to both the second mobile phone and an email address of a subscriber having the second mobile phone, if the email address is included in the received short message; and at least one mobile switching center for delivering a request for sending a short message which has been received from the first mobile phone to the short message service center and sending the short message to the second mobile phone upon receiving an instruction to send the short message from the short message service center.