How to send free email SMS and get mobile alerts?

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Thursday, April 12, 2007

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How to send free email SMS and get mobile alerts?

While searching for sending free SMS, I found how to send email to SMS on your

mobile phone. It describes how an email can be sent as SMS to your mobile phone (works on selected operators only). But it has a limitation i.e it truncates long mail and approx only 160 characters is sent as SMS. I have confirmed that Airtel Karnataka is working fine.
Extending this idea following things can be done with it :-

Auto forwarding mails to mobile phone as SMS:- In Gmail, go to settings -> Forwarding and POP and set your messages to forward at the mobile-number-cum-email. But, currently this is not working. If it works, then selected mails can also be forwarded by creating filters. I have reported this issue to Gmail help and support and hope they resolve it soon.

Using your mobile number as another email address to 'send mail from' in Gmail:- Go to settings -> Accounts and set the mobile-number-cum-email as 'Add another email address' under 'Send mail as'. It will send a verification code on your mobile. After verifying the email address you can select this email address as 'send email from' so that you get its reply as SMS alert.

Orkut SMS alerts:- Currently Orkut SMS alert is available in Brazil only. On changing the primary email address to your mobile-number-cum-email in Orkut it sends a link and verification code which is received as truncated message due to limitation. If Orkut changes the format of verification mail by sending the verification code (say XXXX) first and then the link, then it can be verified by clicking the link, http://www.orkut.com/EditEmailConfirm.aspx?vc=XXXX which means, you can receive SMS alert when someone leaves a scrap on your scrapbook. I have reported this issue to Orkut help and support and hope they consider it.

Google Alerts:- Similarly, if the format of verification mail is changed while subscribing for Google Alerts, it would be quite handy to receive latest updates on a topic of your choice directly to your mobile.

Blogger comment Notification:- In blogger, go to settings-> comments and set your mobile-number-cum-email as 'Comment Notification Address'. Thus, it notifies on your mobile when someone leaves a comment on your blog. Thankfully, it does not requires any verification code.

Let others send you SMS without knowing your mobile number:- There are many sites that send SMS to mobile phones free. But, they require to disclose your mobile number to do so. Alternatively, you can sign up at jotforms using your mobile-number-cum-email, create a form and place it on your web page. Do not forget to set 'E-mail ' to 'yes' under form properties. Now anyone can send you an SMS without knowing your mobile number. A demo SMS form can be seen on the sidebar.

Sending SMS using PL/SQL:- This Oracle forum post describes how to send SMS using PL/SQL. I have not verified it, but if it is working then powerful web based applications can be created that can send SMS to desired mobile number.

There may be many other possibilities with mobile-number-cum-email, tell me what you can do with yours?

Update (20th June 2007):
Google folks have corrected the bug or whatever and auto forwarding of incoming mails is now working for Airtel Karnataka number. You can get sms alert when someone sends you a mail or writes a scrap in your scrapbook in orkut. Gmail simply rocks !!

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Abdel Olakara said...: This is a great news!! thanks lui!!! keep up the work; 13 April 2007 5:00 PM
Anitha said...: Way to go Lui!!!! keep going....; 13 April 2007 5:01 PM
Munmun said...: Hi lui..
found this info really useful. hpe to use it some day ;-)
btw, whats with the new look et all? resurrection of sorts, eh? ;-)
edit d template properly.. the old look and feel was more comfortable for me to navigate via ur site..; 13 April 2007 5:11 PM
Anonymous said...: fundo..bhai.. sahi hai.. it is really nice to read all this stuff
keep it up..; 13 April 2007 6:38 PM
santu said...: fundo..bhai.. sahi hai.. it is really nice to read all this stuff
keep it up..
its me...; 13 April 2007 6:41 PM
Rupesh said...: @Abdel, Anitha
Enjoy being using Airtel!!
Even Vishnu is enjoying it..

@Munmun,
hey, the blog's dress has gone for a wash... ;)
I changed the look to make it lightweight and look better even at 800x600 resolution (20-30% of visitors have that screen resolution)
and BTW, for a blog, content matters more than look...

@santu,
even its me too.. :D

other updates,
1. Airtel Tamil Nadu & Hutch Karnataka is not working.

2. Yahoo Mail charges Rs 1 per mail alert and truncated verification message is received on forwarding mail to mobile-number-cum-email. (yet another reason to use Gmail)

Atlast but not least,
Access to information should be free..; 13 April 2007 7:00 PM
unplugged said...: Hey Rupesh, nice post!; 13 April 2007 11:26 PM
Anonymous said...: This post has been removed by a blog administrator.; 17 June 2007 9:24 AM
DeeJay said...: I'll try something from this, and hope it'll work.; 29 June 2007 5:01 AM
Sajjan said...: This is really kool. I knew about this but forget the domain name in email address. Today I searched it on the google, and it displayed your page as the first item. I want to let you know I am using this feature in some automation work for my application. A huge thanks to you !! Keep posting these kinda stuff ...; 4 July 2007 5:38 PM
Rupesh said...: @Sajjan bhaiya,
you're welcome... nice to find this is useful to you... such comments give inspiration to keep going... :)

One tip:-
Create Gmail filters to auto forward the incoming messages for Orkut, and Google alerts. and better send messages as text only (not html).; 4 July 2007 8:36 PM
Anonymous said...: awesome post. thanks a lot.; 9 July 2007 1:53 PM
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Abhi(SHAKE) said...: HEY PRETTY COOL ..
BUT I M NOT ABLE TO GET MY NO REGISTERED 4 ALERTS 4 NEW MAILS OR SCRAPS ...

WOULD U MIND EXPLAINING ..

THANKS IN ADVANCE.; 26 November 2007 4:26 PM
Rupesh said...: @abhi (shake) well before use
i.e. please read the post fully before posting your comments. I guess it is quite clear in the article.; 27 November 2007 2:28 PM
shubhamz said...: Hi,
I was wondering if you could find a method to receive mail2sms on hutch karnataka...?
I'll be glad if u could. thanks!; 7 December 2007 2:56 AM
Rupesh said...: @shubhamz,
the email to sms link for hutch is given at the link I mentioned in my post.. but it's not working....; 7 December 2007 11:29 PM
rambhai said...: hmm can we get this system on yahoo and msn????; 9 February 2008 10:21 PM
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I have written one more post regarding getting orkut scraps as sms for world users (non indian) and also about getting email as sms. Check out...; 23 April 2008 3:37 PM
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