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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Most providers do this by who+what+why · 2004-08-02 06:48 · Score: 1, Insightful

I know for a fact that AT&T give you an address @attwireless.net and T-Mobile give you a username@tmomail.net.

Of course, you'd be lucky to get any reception anywhere unpopulated like, say, MANHATTAN! with either of those services.

-- Just a bitter cell phone loser