instead of Email to SMS, why not just check your email on your smart phone? its as simple as installing an app on the phone, no? in all honesty the email to sms the messages are so small and truncated and its nearly impossible to read especially when people have a big email signature or reply and quote the message. why do people want to live like we are still in the '90's?
This was discussed in the following, and other threads, a couple of weeks ago.
@Martin_S : I missed two emergency messages (I am a search and rescue volunteer): one yesterday and one today. Is it because the service is discontinued or because there are filters that block the messages? If it's the latter, is it possible to have a white list?
I'm not quite sure why you would be getting e-mails sent to you then. Why would they not send SMS to begin with or a phone call, both of which are instantaneous. The service has been discontinued, as discussed in the above (and other) threads.
@Pauly wrote:
instead of Email to SMS, why not just check your email on your smart phone?
This is probably not a substitute for SMS which arrive instantly. I'm not sure if e-mails can be "pushed" to a phone app instantly, which would be OK then.
Someone else discussed security systems, which should be able to send an SMS, or an instantaneous notification to an App, like my security cameras do.
@notdavis wrote:
Because almost every computer can send an automated email, but teaching a computer to send an SMS is more complex and requires third party services.
So... computers can send and receive emails, and also phones can send and receive emails. so we should simply forget about the ability to convert the email to an sms and send an email from a computer to a phone directly and receive it directly without it being converted to another format, this sounds like the best approach
@Martin_S wrote:
@notdavis explained it well: the purpose of using SMS is (1) to get the message instantaneously, anytime and anywhere (I don't check my emails every minute, especially when I'm not at work), (2) to be able to use Emergency Bypass, and (3) to be able to assign a specific tone. In my case (search and rescue), time is of the essence: we need to get the message right away, reply the minute we get it, and grab our gear and deploy. Also, we need to be able to send the message to a distribution list (we are ~30 volunteers), not to individual people (and not phone calls).
This sounds like a problem that someone else should solve not the rescue volunteers problem. I'm pretty pretty sure your boss or company its their job to find a solution to this, not you personally., so let the people who are responsible for coming up with solutions worry about the problem.
I know one thing for sure, that feature is GONE, so complaining about it will never bring it back, we should channel that energy into finding a new solution that can replace it instead of bragging about how good and robust it was.
btw, a phone can receive a text message instantly yes that is true, but a phone also receives an email message just as instantly as a text message. They are both equally reliable, email is not inferior to sms.
the keyword is bell and telus "still" support this feature but for how much longer? cancelling rogers to go with bellus because they still have this feature does not make financial sense, what if bellus gets rid of the feature next month? your screwed and wasted your time changing providers, just let the manager find a solution for you.
not sure why people do not want to check email from their phone? email is reliable. my old job as a dispatch we used email from our phone and it was nothing wrong it worked well. let your boss or company figure this one out not you
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