Free email to SMS
HAs anyone tried this one yet? http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/email-to-sms/ ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Free email to SMS
Hey Pander, This is a great tool but it does have it's limitations. Most of the time, you have to be aware of what you attach to your emails and how many characters you use. Just the sheer fact that you can send emails to an SMS receiver is still great though. One down fall is the SMS receiver's carrier. Some carriers are starting to restrict use of the email-to-SMS conversion (to some degree) a paid service. I live in Canada and the only GSM provider in the area is Rogers. They've completely locked out this service to a degree that if you receive an SMS from email, the receiver is notified that a message has arrived and will have to agree to pay a fee to receive it. Unless someone has found ways around this matter, I would look into it a bit more before you start sending off massive amounts of joke mail to all of your phone pals. Will On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Pander pan...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: HAs anyone tried this one yet? http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/email-to-sms/ ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Free email to SMS
On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 11:53 -0400, Will Siddall wrote: Hey Pander, This is a great tool but it does have it's limitations. Most of the time, you have to be aware of what you attach to your emails and how many characters you use. Just the sheer fact that you can send emails to an SMS receiver is still great though. One down fall is the SMS receiver's carrier. Some carriers are starting to restrict use of the email-to-SMS conversion (to some degree) a paid service. I live in Canada and the only GSM provider in the area is Rogers. They've completely locked out this service to a degree that if you receive an SMS from email, the receiver is notified that a message has arrived and will have to agree to pay a fee to receive it. Unless someone has found ways around this matter, I would look into it a bit more before you start sending off massive amounts of joke mail to all of your phone pals. Will Rogers used to charge $5 extra if you wanted to receive unlimited email to SMS. Somewhere in the small print there was probably a limit to the unlimited though. I also found a package that would interface directly to Rogers ( and Fido's ) html to text gateways. It would even split the email into separate messages if it became to long. I don't remember the name of the package and IIRC the maintainer was talking about dropping it because rogers was changing the html every couple of weeks to mess with the interface. Angus ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
