Forwarding my email to SMS (just subject line or sender will do!)

TenThirteen

As subject line really!

I'm looking for either a piece of software I can buy and run from my desktop (as my PC is always on during daytime hours) that will forward on the subject line (or at least the sender, or well just telling me I have an email waiting would suffice!!) from a pop3 accessible email account to my (UK) mobile phone.

...Or a reasonably (yet reliable!!) priced service that will do this.

I've been Googling this for about three days but have yet to come up with something suitable, they all seem to need to have a mobile phone connected to do the forwarding, grr!!

Thanks in advance for any replies,
L ;o)

cledor

AFAIK You can subscribe to a mobile provider's service such as o2.co.uk / vodafone / orange (depending on your mobile network) and this can be configured to forward emails via sms to your mobile.

dickibobboy

some phones do allow email like this check your model.

TenThirteen

Just to follow up my original post... Orange do this for free, just get your emails forwarded to the email account provided by Orange, even on pay as you go and set up the free sms email alerts. The alerts are instant 90% of the time, sometimes there is a delay... but it's free, O2 and Vodafone charge by the message for this!!

:T

richyrichuk

what mobile have u got?

TenThirteen

It's a Nokia 6230i... y? Is there a cheapo way to actually read my emails using a different handset / contract??

Lyrrad

Free Push Email service

http://www.emoze.com/en/download/Default.aspx


Might need to get a new phone though

TenThirteen

Looks good, but I don't use Outlook... bah!!

TenThirteen

Oooh... it looks really good, sh*t I might actually download MS Outlook...

superscaper

TenThirteen wrote: »

sh*t I might actually download MS Outlook...

Don't think you can download it from anywhere (unless MS offer a trial).

TenThirteen

Should have said 'install' on the office disk. But I use Open Office... I'd rather have it as a portable app, maybe Lotus Notes do a USB stick version of theirs... I use Thunderbird portable but emoze doesn't support it yet... bah!!