SMS Email Alerts

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by Shady, Jul 10, 2007.

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    Hi guys,

    I am hoping that someone here can help me out.

    I currently have G-Mail and am trying to find a way to receive SMS alerts on my phone every time I receive a new Email message. I don't want the email to be forwarded to my phone (because they charge you HUGE money for this and it requires a data plan) but would rather be simply notified when I have a new email and if possible the subject and from whom.

    Facebook I know has a feature like this where every time you get a new message or every time someone adds you as a friend they send you a text message. I have unlimited free incoming text messages but not unlimited data.

    A couple ideas that came to my mind is...

    -Since Gmail does not natively offer this feature what if I forwarded my email;s form my gmail account into a email account that does support this feature (Problem: I cant seem to find a free email service that does this)

    -Maybe an outlook plugin can do what I am looking for?

    -I remember reading something about a php script that did something like this but I cant seem to find any info on it.

    If anyone can help me out it would be much appreciated and of course Rep would be in order!

    Matt
     
    Shady, Jul 10, 2007 IP