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Originally Posted by mymaus1
Thanks for the quick and thorough response! Couple of questions --
When I send an email to myphone#@vtext.com, I get the message in 2-3 seconds. Do you use this solution yourself? Can you time how fast the time you send a message to gmail to the time you're seeing it on your phone and let me know? Every second counts in this case. Unfortunately, the sender can only send the message to one email address, so I can't speed it up that way. If the phone is always "on-line" would it retrieve the message faster?
Is there an option to have the message automatically appear on the screen as soon as it is available?
Is there an option to let sms go through to alert me to the incoming email?
What do you mean by "use "recentxx@gmail.com", not just "xxx@gmail.com"."?
Do you know if I could use yahoo instead of gmail for this?
Just curious...do you know if a Blackberry deliver this message to me faster? I would hate to switch, but this use it critical to me.
Thanks again,
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* Sending an email straight to my sprint phone takes 4-5 seconds but sometimes 15! The performance is not consistent. If it's goes through Gmail and then to my cell, it doesn't add more than a second (I can check the time it takes from my 1st account to Gmail and it's a second or so).
* You should leave the connection always on but dormant so downloading the email is faster.
* Keeping a copy of the SMS is not useful as pocket outlook will notify of new mail anyways.
* Pocket outlook will pop up showing you sender and subject and clicking "yes" should take you straight to the email. Such notification can be enabled in Sound and Notification from the Settings of your device.
* The "recent:" is a prefix that will force gmail to make available all emails in the past 30 days regardless of whether you have already downloaded them on a different computer via POP. If you only use one device to POP from Gmail, you won't need it most likely.
* I am not familiar with Blackberries but my understanding is that it will take them pretty much the same time as Exchange with Direct Push, which I believe is a little longer than you could achieve with this system. However, this is just my feeling, I haven't timed either solution.
* I believe you would need the Paid version of Yahoo to enable POP access.
Alternative:
You could also sign up for exchange and direct push. Once email arrives they push it down to your email client which then alerts you. It doesn't not use SMS but as far as I understand it, it won't be faster because the server is providing the service to many and won't prioritize your message.
If you can get an email client that can continuously pull messages from Gmail inbox every 3-4 seconds, then you'd be faster (once message arrives in Gmail, you know about it in 3-4 seconds, rather than waiting for the SMS). On the other hand it will drain your battery in an hour or so, I suppose.
The fastest thing I can think of, if you hire a developer, is to code up a client on your device and a server on your home machine. As soon as an email comes to your home machine, the server there will send the content down to the client. Clearly it requires quite a bit of thought and a developer to code it up.