Get emails from schools sent to your phone as texts

[grad_wannabe]

Last night, as I checked my gmail inbox the umpteenth time to see if I'd gotten anything from any schools, I realized I do that a lot. Check my inbox, that is. Fifteen times a day, easy, and I'm not even slated to hear anything back til March. Driving myself batty.

So I rigged an easy way to get any emails to that inbox (I created this gmail account specifically for grad apps, so that inbox only receives school-related mail) sent to my phone as a text (this is for all the kids without fancy iPhones or Blackberries). This way, instead of finding a computer and logging in over and over, I could just stare obsessively at my phone and freak out every time I got a text! Easy!

I thought you guys might be interested, so I figured I'd share:

1) In gmail, go to "Settings" in the top right-hand corner.

2) Click on "Forwarding/POP and IMAP"

3) In the top section, select "Forward a copy of incoming mail to"

4) In the box, enter your 10-digit phone number, followed by the right address for your carrier:

http://tinywords.com/about-old/mobile/

5) Be sure "Save a copy to my inbox" is selected.

6) If you want, you can use the "Filter" function to select exactly which emails get forwarded to your phone.

7) Save changes. I actually get the emails as texts BEFORE they show up in my inbox.

8) Commence staring at phone and willing it to light up.

[socnerd]

I solve this by owning a blackberry, or should I say crackberry... makes it even easier to be obsessively checking!

[mario]

I solve this by owning a blackberry, or should I say crackberry... makes it even easier to be obsessively checking!

me too, just bought it as a xmas present to me....indeed, is facilitating my OCD

[DJLamar]

Yeah, I set up something like this a week or so ago. My method involved just creating a filter in Gmail that would forward all emails with, for example, *stanford.edu in the from field to the address for my phone. This serves the extra purpose of making sure that email from those addresses never gets sent to the spam folder (there is an option for this in filter actions now).

[chocker]

Last night, as I checked my gmail inbox the umpteenth time to see if I'd gotten anything from any schools, I realized I do that a lot. Check my inbox, that is. Fifteen times a day, easy, and I'm not even slated to hear anything back til March. Driving myself batty.

So I rigged an easy way to get any emails to that inbox (I created this gmail account specifically for grad apps, so that inbox only receives school-related mail) sent to my phone as a text (this is for all the kids without fancy iPhones or Blackberries). This way, instead of finding a computer and logging in over and over, I could just stare obsessively at my phone and freak out every time I got a text! Easy!

I thought you guys might be interested, so I figured I'd share:

1) In gmail, go to "Settings" in the top right-hand corner.

2) Click on "Forwarding/POP and IMAP"

3) In the top section, select "Forward a copy of incoming mail to"

4) In the box, enter your 10-digit phone number, followed by the right address for your carrier:

http://tinywords.com/about-old/mobile/

5) Be sure "Save a copy to my inbox" is selected.

6) If you want, you can use the "Filter" function to select exactly which emails get forwarded to your phone.

7) Save changes. I actually get the emails as texts BEFORE they show up in my inbox.

8) Commence staring at phone and willing it to light up.

Awesome idea ( jhakkas ) .

Can I do it in webmail ? I want to link my friends phone number to it. Cornell has an option to SMS the decision ( I put my friends number).