Comments on: CyberNotes: “Push” Email Using SMS Text Messages

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:32:49 +0000

What I’m really looking for is a service that will break up a msg into 160 chars each msg. It can send the first part, then say “reply with ‘more’ to receive the rest.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 05:59:21 +0000

Heres a trick I am using related to gmail and Nextel. I couldn’t find an answer anywhere so I figured this works out well. My girlfriends email at work is xxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxx.com (35 characters) Neither of my phones will recognize that many characters for an email. Programming or replying to a received text. So I went to gmail went under the filters and used the forwarding option to forward any message sent from my cell phone sms address to my g/f’s work email. It works perfectly every time!

So all I need to do is go to create a message, type in my gmail as the to and it goes to my gmail and automatically forwards it to my g/f’s work. Hope this helps someone.

By: PhoenixP3K

PhoenixP3K — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:01:49 +0000

Rogers got really smart about it about 2-3 years ago. When ever you send an email to PHONENUMBER@pcs.rogers.com they send you a text message notifying you that you’ve received an email and you have to reply with “READ” to get the actual content of the email. Sending a text makes regular charges applicable. The notification email only provides you the email address of the send so you know if it’s worth it or not.

By: Mayur

Mayur — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:37:49 +0000

wow superb article
Thanks

By: DickieD

DickieD — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:16:17 +0000

For tmobile use tmomail.com, not tmomail.net.

Alternatively, you may prefer to use your carrier EMAIL address instead of the SMS address, for carriers for which that is provided, in that most carriers send a notification for mail received to that carrier account. One main issue using the SMS address is that long emails will often not be forwarded because they are too long to be received by the limited SMS relay. For example, I have been using the “accountname@springpcs.com” address for years now instead of the phone number messaging address, so that I am still alerted by the service – only issue is that Sprint is unfortunately discontinuing its email service at the end of this year , which has brought me to looking for a better alternative. So definitely if anyone has another way, please let us know – I really would rather not have to buy some Push solution .

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:50:24 +0000

thenikeman wrote:

I setup my Gmail to forward to my Tmobile phone (HTC Dash) but all my emails are showing up in my phone as MMS messages, not text messages. Wonder if there is a work around for that…?

Looks like that is the only email address they provide... so I'd venture to say that there is no workaround.

bmdixon wrote:

there is a larger list of email addresses here: http://www.sms411.net/2006/07/.....phone.html

The article's list isn't that great, but I believe what you're referring to is the list that someone placed in the comments.

By: bmdixon

bmdixon — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:30:43 +0000

there is a larger list of email addresses here: [sms411.net]

o2 uk is: @mmail.co.uk

By: thenikeman

thenikeman — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:39:23 +0000

I setup my Gmail to forward to my Tmobile phone (HTC Dash) but all my emails are showing up in my phone as MMS messages, not text messages. Wonder if there is a work around for that…?

The downside of them coming through as MMS is that it takes longer to load up and also “plays” the message and takes awhile to scroll through.