I am looking for a way to have short email messages sent through SMS. I've talked to some folks at Sprint, but they told me it wasn't possible. However, I thought I would check to see if anyone here has any ideas.

Btw, what I am trying to do is receive stock alerts (when certain stock prices meet set parameters) by way of my phone - I want to be automatically notified as opposed to having to check my email every 5 mins.

Thanks!

XXXXXXXXXX@messaging.sprintpcs.com


with xxxxxxxxxxx being your phone number.

I've been doing this for years, I just set up my email accounts to forward the mail to the address that Takmsdsm mentioned. It only gives you the sender and a bit of the body of the message, but you get enough information to know whether or not to bother checking your email.

This used to be free, a wireless web alert, but I think that I've been getting charged for them for the past couple of months. Keep that in mind if you don't have unlimited text messaging, at .10 each they can add up fast.

tonydiv,

Works like a charm. Used my Gmail account to set up filters for fowarding specific emails. You're right, Sprint charges .10/msg unless you have a SMS service plan.

Thanks for the suggestions!

I'm kind of pissed that they plugged that hole. As long as the message originated from a pc and not a handset they didn't charge. I wonder if those with regular vision packages still get it for free?

Guess I can't complain, I was getting my "alerts" for free since Nov. of 01.

So if this is the case, do you get charged (whether it takes away from your bucket of SMS messages for the month or charges you the $.10 if you don't have SMS) for both incoming AND outgoing?

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Bryan

"I'm not going anywhere NEAR that sabertooth snatch of yours." - Dr. Christian Troy

The .10/msg charge is if you don't have an SMS service plan or you've exceeded your allotted messages. A conversation w/ a recent Sprint rep indicated that the charge was eventually going to be increased to .15/msg. That's a complete scam. They're just trying to incent people over to a service plan.

I think it is the "Hole Theory" on text messages.

Not if you changed from Vision to Power Vision, you didn't send off the proverbial read flag yet.