Friday, July 2, 2010

Free eMail elerts on your mobile


Lightbulb Free eMail elerts on your mobile

Get Email alerts on your mobile as an text message (SMS) irrespective of the service/email provider! You’ll just have to make sure your email provider supports Mail Forwarding. This could be found somewhere inside your Mail Options/Settings. If you are a Yahoo! user, you’ll be able to find it in your Mail Options –> Forwarding and for GMail, this will be located in your Mail Settings –> POP and Forwarding Tab. This works forGoogle Apps users as well.
And this works on Way2SMS platform.

Ready to get alerts? Here’s the procedure.

Creating a Way2SMS Account

Visit Way2SMS and choose Register.
Enter your personal details and your mobile number (the password will be sent to your mobile).
Enter the password that was sent to your mobile to confirm your mobile.
You have now confirmed your number. Now proceed further.
Setting up Alerts
After logging into your Way2SMS account, click the Mail tab
Create a Way2SMS email. (eg: 
yourname@way2sms.com) and click Submit
Now, click Mail Alerts (on the top right corner) and choose ‘Activate‘
Enter your timing preferences
Way2SMS setup is now over.

Now, get in to your GMail/Yahoo! or your own email service.
Forwarding Emails
Login to your GMail/Google Apps Email
Click Settings on the top right corner
Click “Forwarding and POP/IMAP“
Click the second radio button that reads “Forward a copy of the mail to” and enter your Way2SMS email address (eg:
yourname@way2sms.com)
Choose “Keep GMail’s copy in the Inbox” so that the email remains in your GMail Inbox rather than being archived.
Click Save Settings
You are all set to receive Text Alerts on your mobile. Why not test if it works by sending a message to yourself? 
Follow the same procedure for Yahoo!/your email service

Note: This works only in India

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