Receive SMS notification of email

Cheetah Designs · 3 Aug 2011 at 23:21

Is it possible to do this for free?

I have a Nokia 6700 classic which has poor Email facilities to the point where it can't even poll for new messages so I was wondering if there is a way to get free SMS notifications of new emails to my gmail account.

godinman · 4 Aug 2011 at 07:57

I haven't looked closely, but this guide say's "Next time you receive email from that address you’ll also get SMS message with about first 150 characters of the email."

Myshra · 4 Aug 2011 at 08:36

Are you using mail4exchange?

Cheetah Designs · 4 Aug 2011 at 11:22

godinman said:
I haven't looked closely, but this guide say's "Next time you receive email from that address you’ll also get SMS message with about first 150 characters of the email."

I have found guides like this while googling aswell but none of the Email -> SMS gateways work

Myshra said:
Are you using mail4exchange?

Being brutally honest, don't even know what mail4exchange is.

Myshra · 4 Aug 2011 at 11:29

Sorry I'm confusing the 6700 classic with the slide sorry - mail4exchange is the mail client for Symbian 60 and you have a Symbian 40 phone so it's not really designed for data usage which is why the mail client sucks.

Cheetah Designs · 4 Aug 2011 at 11:54

Myshra said:
Sorry I'm confusing the 6700 classic with the slide sorry - mail4exchange is the mail client for Symbian 60 and you have a Symbian 40 phone so it's not really designed for data usage which is why the mail client sucks.

I wouldn't say its not designed for data usage it has HSDPA and HSUPA...its just, as you say, the email client sucks.

There is something called Nokia Messaging which is supposed to give push email support (to even my phone) but I can't find any information on the internet anywhere other than its an exclusive Orange product (I'm on orange).

Myshra · 4 Aug 2011 at 13:19

Cheetah Designs said:
I wouldn't say its not designed for data usage it has HSDPA and HSUPA...its just, as you say, the email client sucks.

There is something called Nokia Messaging which is supposed to give push email support (to even my phone) but I can't find any information on the internet anywhere other than its an exclusive Orange product (I'm on orange).

S40 was designed to be without data much like gen 1 S60 phones and is now deliberately marketed towards the lower market on the expectation that the vast majority will not pair it with a data contract. S40 is designed to require no in-life upgrades and be low maintenance for operators and users. It's screen size more than anything is the giveaway that it's not designed for large amounts of reading on it.

HSDPA is a revision of 3G which has been present on phones since 2002 and is not an indicator of expected usage. Data through a telco in 2003 was under a few gigs a day.

If you want to view mail on a mobile I'd suggest you change handsets for one designed to do it.

Cheetah Designs · 4 Aug 2011 at 14:40

Myshra said:
If you want to view mail on a mobile I'd suggest you change handsets for one designed to do it.

I'm not purposely trying to disagree with you, but any handset that has built in email capabilities is designed for use with email - I can quite happy read and reply to emails on this phone.

However, with the latest firmware, they have changed the email functionality and "upgraded" it to newer software which means it lost the polling ability it used to have in the older firmware.