Email Notification via SMS in the US?

Posted by Cliff on Monday August 2, 2004 @06:32AM from the never-missing-an-important-email dept.

Joel McShiston asks: "Back in Europe I had set up a system through which urgent emails matching certain criteria were automatically forwarded upon arrival to a (free) email account which my cell phone carrier (Vodafone) provided for free with each account - {cell number}@vodafone.es. At the carrier's site I could then turn 'SMS notification of new email' on and would receive a text message telling me to check my email each time a matching email came through. I'll be soon moving to the US and would like to know whether any of you has a similar (or better) system working over there. Which kind of SMS-email 'interfacing' are you able to do on that side of the pond?"

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Easy if you have your own domain by pauljlucas · 2004-08-02 07:09 · Score: 4, Informative

See my instructions. While specifically for Verizon, the technique should work for any carrier that supplies you with an e-mail address.

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.procmailrc by JeffL · 2004-08-02 07:10 · Score: 4, Informative

There is almost always an e-mail to sms gateway address, such as 5555555555@t-mobile.com (or whatever). I have a .procmailrc that forwards interesting e-mails to my phone. It strips quoted text and other stuff, to squeeze as much as possible into the allowed 160 characters.
I've been using my phone as a biff for years. If an e-mail is important I know about it right away, if it isn't important I can deal with it later or ignore it completely.