Gmail To Cell Without The App?
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Today, another Matt asks:
Hey Matt, I love Gmail, and love the Gmail notifier as well… is there any way to get a text alert on your phone? That would be AWESOME if Gmail could do that. Would save me time from checking my email from a random computer or my phone.
Believe it or not, you can forward a copy of your Gmail to most typical SMS enabled mobile phones. How? First, you will need to contact your mobile carrier and find out what your SMS to email address is. Be aware most mobile reps will have little to no idea what the heck you are talking about, so you will want to ask for “your_phone_number@yourcarrier’s_domain_name.com”. For AT&T Wireless users, this would be number at txt.att.net - Sprint, mynumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com. You get the general idea.
In Gmail, just set it up to forward a “copy” of your new messages to that “email” address - it’s that simple.
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4 Comments
Paul
March 21st, 2008
at 5:48am
If you don’t have unlimited text with your phone service, you should not do this, I sent an E-mail by accident to my son. He got it as 28 text messages, he’s not happy! And I don’t know what happens if the mail has pictures in it.
Matt Hartley
March 21st, 2008
at 10:02am
Paul: Ouch, good point - solid point. :)
Scamslayer
March 22nd, 2008
at 4:59pm
Of course if you have a BlackBerry you can check Gmail without the app by setting up the e-mail forwarder. However that has the same problem with the texting, as I got a text every hour I didn’t check the e-mail.
Otherwise, I can’t do this because I only have 300 text messages a month because I don’t have a BlackBerry anymore. In anyevent this is a good way to do this.
Peter
April 10th, 2008
at 7:18pm
Yeah, I think the original question was asking if there’s a notifier - I have AT&T Wireless and they have notifier support for a bunch of web mail clients, but not gmail. Anyone else know of one?