Set up free SMS alerts for your Gmail account
May 18, 2009 · Article by Sriraj · 12 Comments
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Instead, to accomplish your needs, you may try using the services of Mobee or forward all your Gmail messages to Way2SMS account and get free emails alerts as SMS on your mobile.
You can click on the above link of Mobee to know everything about it. If you are un-aware of what is Way2SMS account, here is a quick review. By using Way2SMS, you can send SMS to any mobile phone in India free of charge. Recently, Way2SMS has also started providing free SMS alerts for your Gmail and Yahoo mail accounts. You can retrieve you emails when ever you want, if need be.
To start using the services of Way2SMS, just visit its website and register/login to activate your SMS alerts options. Read the terms and conditions of Way2SMS carefully before you forward your email to your Way2SMS account.
gmail alerts are very useful to all
very nice service.now i don’t check my mail frequently to see if i got a mail.
thanks for the post.
Ok, so should I give my username a password to you to get that service?
absolutely not. You can follow the procedure explained above and get the SMS’s delivered.
There is a similar free service that works worldwide at ‘www.mail2sms.fr.nf/en’
Ok, so should I give my username a password to you to get that service? Lollz
The plan sounds perfect, but Google SMS Channel is not real-time. It doesn’t send SMS’s when the feed is updated. Instead its sent in bulks.
I have created a Google SMS channel for my Twitter RSS feed, just to keep track of my updates, (in case its hacked, I need to know..right..? ). I update some 100 updates a day, usually in one go. After all that, the SMS Chanel would send me only the latest update. So only 1/100 update is delivered.
That means, if you get some 100 emails a day, you might get some 2 or 3 sms. But its a good to know trick. Might come handy
After all its a feed Arun, So you’d only get latest posts or tweets. If we can use the filters and labels effectively then this may come handy to those who move away from Internet for some days..
Any way, there is even an easier way to get SMS alerts and that’s in my line of posts
i have tried all steps but not getting sms alerts.
As I said, you may have to wait for some time after you’ve setup the process. You can log into your Feedburner account to see the status of your feed (Whether it is still in bubbling stage or not)
please send mails via SMS