Comments on: How To Setup Gmail SMS Alerts For Urgent Emails for Free

By: vijay

vijay — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:43:20 +0000

It is possible to get email to SMS in India.
For Airtell that I use “forward to” option of gmail
919845428xxx@airtelkk.com

By: Satheesh

Satheesh — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:42:09 +0000

Hi friends

By: pradeep

pradeep — Tue, 26 May 2009 11:39:36 +0000

plese send me sms

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 07 May 2009 21:06:23 +0000

I’m not sure if this works for other carriers or not, but for large messages, i have it send it as though it were a picture message. I use cricket and instead of sending it to (mynum)@sms.mycricket.com i send it to (mynum)@mms.mycricket.com. Notice the change from sms to mms. I use this for various things, like getting alerted for weather and that. As of the time this was written, cricket still didn’t support various facebook apps and alerts from weather.com. Various services will have an option of sending alerts and that to your email. Weather.com is one example. To have it go to my phone, i put (mynum)@mms.mycricket.com and it sends the whole thing in one piece, not just 160 characters of it in multiple parts. In order for this to work, you have to have picture messages included in your plan.

By: John-Michael

John-Michael — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:42:13 +0000

Problem doing this with US Cellular — it attempts to send the entire message of the email in packets of 160 characters, so a long email gets you multiple text messages, a big waste. Any way to just send the subject line or sender email?? Thanks.

By: Valentine Aaqil Mahmood

Valentine Aaqil Mahmood — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 14:53:56 +0000

Fewer Mobile operators, Ask to your Network for email to sms address, I know some in India provides for free some have charges.

By: twl

twl — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:14:41 +0000

Michael was nearly dead on. Gmail won’t allow you create a filter that forwards a message to your own Gmail account – even with a “+FWD” or whatever in the address line.

The solution is to create another gmail account that you can forward to and let it alert your phone. It breaks the chain as he indicated.

Worth noting that Gmail passes thru your original gmail account address on the forwarded email so just setup a filter to forward to your phone anything from your regular gmail account.

TWL

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By: mitesh patel

mitesh patel — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:36:15 +0000

i want just know about obama

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:34:40 +0000

I’m from Portugal and a use Vodafone, can i get a gmail sms alert for free?

By: rav

rav — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:04:56 +0000

free SMS gateways URLs to many countries on SMSurl for free

By: bjhanifin

bjhanifin — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:56:45 +0000

I have forwarded replies to craigslist ads to my phone this way. It works great because the replies to ads are very time sensitive.

By: Aibek

Aibek — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 19:04:01 +0000

Thanks for sharing !

By: Aibek

Aibek — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 19:01:22 +0000

Did you check earlier post for email to SMS gateways for Vietnam? I am sure there shoulf be one or two for Vietnam as well.

By: Aibek

Aibek — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 18:59:56 +0000

Please let me know when you have set it up. Or haow about sharing your current setup with other MUO users?

http://www.makeuseof.com/write-for-make-use-of/

By: Aibek

Aibek — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 18:57:22 +0000

Yes, it works in India too. Just refer to the previous article to find the SMS gateway for your mobile carrier.

If your mobile plan doesn’t charge you for receiving SMS messages then it;sc ompletely free. Based on my experience with INdian mobile provides receiving SMS message is free. Thus using this service should be free.

By: Michael the Dumb Tech Geek

Michael the Dumb Tech Geek — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:05:01 +0000

For you Verizon guys, I may have thought of a solution. Or I simply added a layer of stupidity to it. I can’t test it, because I’m an AT&T customer.
Say your address is MyAddress@gmail.com. You get an email you want to go to your phone at that address. Create a rule that sends it to MyAddress+FWD@gmail.com. With gmail accounts, you can add +whatever to your username and it will still come to your account.
Then, when an email comes in with a To address of MyAddress+FWD@gmail.com, you forward THAT email to your phone. This either adds a link in the chain that goes back to the initial sender, or it started a new chain that will stop with your email.
From there you can create a rule to auto-delete the response messages Verizon keeps sending, and you could also delete all messages To MyAddress+FWD@gmail.com, since these are just duplicates anyway.
Hope this solution works. If not, you go back to dealing with the annoyance and delete 2 filters. Pick your poison

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:43:14 +0000

Are you sure abot this? I have been using using with T-mobile here in UK and hasn’t received a single confirmation message yet.

Yes, it does it with Verizon in the US. When I get an email, the sender gets a message delivery confirmation back from Verizon that contains my @vtext.com text address. As far as I know there is no way to disable it because it comes from the Verizon data network, not the handset.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:00:01 +0000

You guys are godly!

By: Mitchell McKenna

Mitchell McKenna — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:40:10 +0000

I love this feature! Here’s a starter list of things to filter out tho so it doesn’t get annoying
-{facebook.com twitter.com pownce.com godaddy.com ebay.ca blip.fm voxox utterli socialmedian deviantART group-digests@linkedin.com rogers.com cineplex updates@linkedin.com ibanking@app.rbc.com}

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:54:12 +0000

I cannot do it in Vietnam.

Have you got any updates for us Vietnamese here yet?

Thanks
epayvn.info

By: Aibek

Aibek — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:39:01 +0000

“I’ve tried using this before. Problem is it allows the stupid delivery message from your carrier to pass back to the original sender”

Are you sure abot this? I have been using using with T-mobile here in UK and hasn’t received a single confirmation message yet.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:34:57 +0000

I’ve tried using this before. Problem is it allows the stupid delivery message from your carrier to pass back to the original sender. Which contains the direct text address of your cell phone. That’s fine for people I trust, but if someone emails me I don’t like the thought of them getting a response like: “Your message to 5555551212@messaging.sprint.com was delivered”.

Add to that the fact that it sends that reply the instant the text hits your phone, not when you read it, so people think you read the message when you may not have, and this just doesn’t work too well.

The part about filtering for just your boss or something urgent is a cool idea though.

It would just be so much easier if gmail had integrated sms support. They already do with calendar notifications anyway…

By: Michael The Dumb Tech Geek

Michael The Dumb Tech Geek — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:46:07 +0000

Oh! Forgot Google Calendar messages too. Luckily, it sent me a reminder

By: Michael The Dumb Tech Geek

Michael The Dumb Tech Geek — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:40:07 +0000

I don’t have a data plan on my phone, and have done everything I can think of to hack my unlimited text plan to do everything I can possibly make it do. This includes Mosio, Google SMS, Facebook Mobile, Buxfer, and also the trick used above. With a method like this, I get updates every time a scheduled post goes up on my blog, and every time I have a comment that needs to be moderated. Every time my friend sends me an email, it’s auto-forwarded to my phone as an SMS message, picture attachments typically included.
When I get time in the future, I was considering trying to setup some AutoHotKey scripts that, when triggered by an email message (probably through Outlook), would set my computer to update or scan or whatever on remote command from my texting phone. Oh, to dream of such coolness!

By: Ajay Pathak

Ajay Pathak — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:54:55 +0000

hey thanks for sharing this real cool tip with us
think will help users get sms alerts form specific email address
is sms are free ?
and is this service is available in india also ?