Nov 28
Waiting for an important mail from someone but do not want to be online waiting for it or when on the move do not want to switch on GPRS on your mobile every two minutes to check for the mail, then here is a simple solution for a way to get an SMS alert whenever a email hits your inbox (This will work only in India at the moment).
- Point your browser to http://www.way2sms.com/.
- Register for an account at this site.
- Once registered login using the credentials sent as SMS to your number.
- Click on the ‘Mail’ tab and create an email account at way2sms, remember the id which you have created as you would be needing this.
- Login to your web based email service, I would use the example of Gmail, but it should be same for all providers.
- Navigate to ‘Settings -> Filters’ and setup a new filter to forward all the emails coming for a particular id to the way2sms email id. For example if you want to receive SMS alerts when abc@gmail.com emails you, choose From: ‘abc@gmail.com’ and in the next screen forward to ‘yourmailid@way2sms.com’.
- Once this is setup when ever you receive a new mail from abc@gmail.com it should come and fall in your way2sms mail box.
- Now go back to way2sms.com and choose the ‘Mail Alerts’ option on the top right hand corner of the screen.
- Select the ‘prefered days’ which is which days the alerts should be sent, I chose ‘all 7 days’, and for the preferred time I chose ’round the clock’. This ensures that whenever a new mail comes I will immediately get an SMS with the subject and from email id.
- Click on ‘Activate’ and thats it you are done. But note that you would need to reactivate the ‘mail alerts’ in way2sms every 2 weeks as it gets deactivated after than.
Keep yourself updated on your mails using the sms alerts when on the move, do let me know if you know of any other way of achieving the same.
