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SMS Notice or PoorMansBerry: comments please
- Sam_Odio 19y agoCool, but how is this different than http://teleflip.com? http://teleflip.com? Also, it's been possible to send text messages to your phone for a while, see: http://lifehacker.com/software/cell-phones/send-sms-from-email-127033.php http://lifehacker.com/software/cell-phones/send-sms-from-email-127033.php
- sri 19y agoi don't know what teleflip does, but this app has started out of a basic need: when i'm away from my computer, i would like to know if i have received any (important) emails. right now it truncates an email to 140 characters, so you can't read the entire mail (most of the time) -- just know the sender and subject and the first line...
- sri 19y agobtw it only works for cell phones in the US. and on popular carriers... (using the email-to-sms interface the carriers provide -- for example if you send an email to PHONENUMBER@tmomail.net, then a sms message will be delivered to PHONENUMBER) see the lifehacker link that sam odio provides above.
- sri 19y agoif someone wants to work with me on this, email me (sri at defcraft dot org). work to take this public (right now it won't handle a massive load) -- it is build with ruby on rails and python, so if you have productions experience with rails -- that'll be helpful.
- dfranke 19y agoThis ability comes in handy occasionally (rarely) for me, but I just use Verizon's email-to-SMS service and procmail. What would get me to switch to this, though, would be if you offered a command-line of sorts that lets me control it by sending it SMS messages. For example, let me tell it to start forwarding or ignoring emails that match certain rules.