How To Get Email Alerts in India via SMS For Free
It is not possible to stay online round-the-clock just for checking new mails. Even email providers such as Gmail and Hotmail doesn’t provide any alert facilities. Today we will show you, the easiest way to get alerts on your mobile phone for each incoming mails and that too for free! Way2SMS, the most popular free SMS provider in India, has introduced a new email alerts feature that can send you SMS alerts as soon as a new mail reaches your inbox. This service is absolutely free and there are no strings attached with this feature.
How To Activate This Feature?
1) Register your account at Way2SMS.
2) After registration, you will get a virtual email id <username>@way2sms.com
3) Go to settings, click on Mail Alerts tab and then activate the mail alerts feature as shown below
How To Use This Feature In Gmail And Google Apps?
1) Login to your Gmail/ Google Apps Mail Account.
2) Click on Settings.
3) Click on Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab.
4) Enter your virtual Way2SMS email id as shown below and save the settings.
How To Use This Feature In Windows Live Hotmail?
1) Login to your Windows Live Hotmail Account.
2) Click on options and the click on more options.
3) Then click on “Forward mail to another e-mail account” under Manage your account.
4) Enter your virtual Way2SMS email id as shown below and save the settings.
We have tested this feature and have no complaints. SMS Alerts reached our cellphone within 1 minute. You can also chose when you want to receive the alerts and from whom you want to receive SMS alerts. The main benefit is that we don’t need GPRS activated on our cell phone. Moreover this service is absolutely free.
Note: 1) This feature is available only to the mobile users in India.
2) This feature cannot be activated on Yahoo! Mail as Yahoo has stopped forwarding mails feature in both version of Yahoo! Mail.
3) This feature expires in every 14 days. You must activate it in every 14 days for continues usage of this service.
Author: Omkar Dutta
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An amazing service. But, I presume in the days to come, they may set up a charge or else send their own ads to the provided mobile numbers which will be another hindrance.
@ Suneel
You are absolutely right!
It is not easy for any company to provide free service without any cost or without any ads.
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Good post.. I was searching for this.
This feature expires in every 14 days. We must activate it in every 14 days for continues usage of this service. But just visit
http://sibikrishnan.blogspot.com/2010_01_01_archive.html
to know how to get the feature continuously.
It offered another way to receive sms for new mail:
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=2082592#post16150971