Gmail

[reddevil]

I do not have a gmail account.

But does anybody use gmail to automatically bounce all email messages received to your mobile phone?

Can gmail do this??

[Paul Carmel]

We do it with our Blackberry..........so yes.

[Alan Knighting]

I do not have a gmail account.

But does anybody use gmail to automatically bounce all email messages received to your mobile phone?

Can gmail do this??

I have no idea but if you want a g-mail account so that you can try it just PM me with your e-mail address.

Fluffy

[cromercrabholiday]

We do it with our Blackberry..........so yes.

Poor you - I spent a week handing over my current job to someone with a blackberry. For the first day it squeaked every 10 minutes and he picked it up to read the mail. Eventually, he put the notification on silent.

They are pernicious in commerce, basically making people slaves to their companies 24/7. In my latest client, senior managers are not meant to turn them off - ever!

John

[Stu]

I am soooooo glad I'm not a senior manager anymore!

[Paul Carmel]

The joy of being your own boss, as for the Blackberry, It allows me to do what I want when I want and the off button is a regular feature.

[Paul Carmel]

To get this back on track try this link

http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bi ... swer=54843

[reddevil]

I have set up a gmail account thanx to Alan's invitation but haven't got the automatic messages to my mobile yet.

Paul - thanks for the link but what I was looking for firstly was just a (MMS?) message to my mobile whenever a message was sent to my gmail account.

The next stage would be to access the gmail account and respond to the email, but if I was sitting watching TV in my lounge then I could just go to the desktop computer.

I cannot get the message to my mobile phone but I think that could be because of the poor service by my service provider?

....still working on this one....

[Hells Bells]

reddevil., I am Gmail user, and also need to check email when I don't always have access to the internet. I have a normal mobile phone (NOKIA 6111, but it also worked with my 6230), download opera mini from www.opera.mini.com onto your phone, and you can use your phone as a web browser more easily. It works a treat for gmail. If you don't use it too often, it's not too expensive depending on your mobile phone package.

[reddevil]

Thanks for the link Helen,

I think I might have confused things here? Actually, I am not looking to connect to the internet via my mobile phone (although this may be something for the future). At the moment, all I want is a message to my mibile notifying me that an email has been received.

I can then make the choice of where to access the email (eg. my mobile or home computer or internet cafe).

At the moment, I cannot even get the message to my phone

[vrooje]

I am not sure how it works in Europe, but in the US we can receive text messages on our phone by two methods: the standard one requiring your phone number, or a message sent to an e-mail address given specifically by the service provider.

So, I get text messages on my mobile from Gmail, but Gmail actually thinks that it is forwarding a message to another e-mail address, which is quite reliable. Thus my text message doesn't just notify me that I have an inquiry, but also gives me the first few lines of the message.

Would something like that work for you?

[Hells Bells]

Most of my enquiries and bookings come from either my online calendar, website, or other listing sites. I get sms alerts from most, but not all of them. I can't see anyway of gmail sending this as sms alert, but maybe brooke has an idea you could use, although I'm not sure if that works here. I do however have an email address wit my phone provider.