[Gllug] Email to Mobile Phone

[Walid Shaari]

On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 13:57, Jason Clifford wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, t.clarke wrote:
> 
> > Jason wrote that he emails his pmobile phone with Server alerts ..
> > 
> > how do you go aboutdoing this ??
> 
> Whether the simple email->mobile option is available will depend upon your 
> network although I think all offer it - T-Mobile certainly do.
> 
> It works just like any other email transmission method. You send a message 
> to a given email address (your number at mobileoperator.net) and the message 
> is forwarded to your phone in the same manner as SMS.
> 
> Obviously you want to restrict the size of messages but it's ideal for 
> alerts.
> 
> Alternatively you can use SMS.
> 
> The advantage (or disadvantage at times) with email is that the charge is 
> receiver borne so I don't need a commercial SMS agreement to get messages 
> through.
How about the disadvantages/possible failures ?
all I can think of atm is DNS/Email problems, SMS gateway delays!!!
would Jason/anyone care to elaborate in such issues?!

Walid




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