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  1. At least in the US, most carriers have an email address that corresponds to your number for both SMS and MMS messages that you can just put in the field for email address that will mean they are recieved as a text. If you google "[carrier] email to text" you should get good info.
  2. There are also some email apps that can alert the user when a certain kind of email arrives. No need for SMS in that case.
  3. There is no option for geocaching.com to send you a text message. Notifications are done via email - click the link for more info. Some cell phone providers will give you an email address that will come through on your phone as an SMS, though the formatting usually leaves something to be desired. I did a quick forum search and couldn't easily find the thread, but I know it's been discussed here in the past.
  4. I currently have notifications set to send Newly Published alerts via email to my cellphone's SMS email address. (For Cricket users its your cell phone number + @mms.cricketwireless.net). The problem is that the new cache notifications rarely arrive in a timely manner -- usually 30-60 minutes later than ones sent to an actual (Gmail) address. It appears that the body of the outgoing message is altered for the SMS recipient as compared to the email recipient. Pretty sure this has to be happening before it leaves Groundspeak, since it isn't just the same information, but truncated. It has much less information, just a link to the cache page. Annoying, but tolerable. As a test I sent myself an email from my computer to my cellphone's SMS address. It arrived almost instantly. It seems likely the delay is with Groundspeak, not my wireless provider, and reformatting the message is probably part of it. Is Groundspeak the bottleneck? What can be done to get these "emails" to SMS out faster? 30-60 minutes of delay is way too much in a FTF situation. Thanks...
  5. Yes, but since the OP referred to "email-to-SMS" I just assumed it was standard SMS service that was used. Also I've seen in a description of one such service (probably from a US carrier) that it sent the first 160 characters of the email as an SMS.
  6. It sounds like you've already done option 1 so you might want option 2. There is an option 3 (and probably a 4-∞ too) but option 3 would be to take your already setup email notifications automatically forward them to your SMS "email" address found in the long list below. If you're using gmail youd setup a filter and forward the newly published notification emails to your SMS address. That way if your data is off you should still get the text and able to stop at the nearest McDonalds for a large coke and some free wifi so you can update your cache list How to set up an Instant Notifications: Option 1: To a data-enabled phone Visit the Instant Notifications page to add a new notification. Select cache and log types to watch. If you want to be alerted to newly published caches, select the log type "publish listing." Set the location (central point) and distance (around that point) you want to watch. Check the email listed in the "Send to" drop-down menu. (If you would like to send Instant Notifications to an alternate email,you will need to manage your email addresses first.) Check "Enable Notifications". Click the "Create Notification" button. Note: The speed with which you receive Instant Notifications is dependent on the frequency that your phone checks for email (make sure you have it set to automatic syncing) Option 2: To a basic SMS-enabled phone To find the email address associated with your phone number, Check the list below for your mobile carrier. The address will typically be your ten-digit phone number followed by some version of "@MobileCarrierName.com." Sign in to your Geocaching Premium account and visit your Account Details page. Find the box that says "Your Validated E-Mail Addresses" and click on "Change." Enter your email-to-SMS address and your Geocaching.com password. Click "Add Email Address." A text message that includes an email account validation link will be sent to your phone. Click on the link to validate (to do so, you will need to have internet access on your phone). Visit the Instant Notification page to add a new notification. You will have to select a cache type and log types to watch. If you want to be alerted to newly published caches, select the log type "publish listing." Set the location (central point) and distance (around that point) you want to watch. Select your email-to-SMS address in the "Send to" dropdown. Make sure "Enable Notifications" is checked and then hit the "Create Notification" button. Start this process again from step 5 to set up additional notifications. You can set up 40 notifications max. 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  7. I currently have notifications set to send Newly Published alerts to my home email. However, by the time I check it its often too late to try to go for FTF's. I tried creating a SMS email address from my cell phone number that would change my phone number into an email address (For Verizon users its your cell phone number + @vtext.com). I added it into my notification settings and I got a text message "email" from geocaching right away. The problem is that it wants to verify this email address? I don't know how to verify it since its not a real email address. When I try to click on the link in my text, it just sends me to the geocaching website. I thought it might work without it being verified but it doesn't seem to. Any suggestions?? Thanks for any help and ideas!!
  8. I just added a secondary email address for which to receive text notifications. I verified the address and received the text message on my phone, so that is fine. But I don't have the option of changing my email address to that one, either for existing notifications, or for new notifications. There also is no option for me to change my default email (although I really don't want to do that... I only want to use the new one for certain notifications.)
  9. Can anyone tell me the email-to-SMS address for the Three Network. I would like to have alerts come to my phone but can't find their address.
  10. I figured it out. Go to notifications and add email address, enter your phone number as an email address. To do this you do an online search for "email-to-SMS" and look for your carriers extension, ie; @ text.att.net , @ vtext.com etc. Hope this helps
  11. Following up -- 2 new cache alerts. For the first one, all three notifications -- Groundspeak email to Gmail, Gmail forward to Cell SMS, and Groundspeak "email" to cell SMS arrived immediately. On the second one, Groundspeak email to Gmail, Gmail forward to Cell SMS arrived immediately, but Groundspeak "email" to cell SMS lagged by 30 minutes.
  12. I'm trying to set up instant notifications via email-to-sms on my O2 iPhone 3GS, using http://support.Groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=184 as my guide. I went to the page they suggested for the email addresses associated, but the O2 one didn't give any result, and I've tried several others I've found online. None of them have sent a test sms through, has anyone set this up on O2 already who could give me some pointers?
  13. Just wondering if anyone had any useful pointers on this issue. I don't check mails over the weekend much, and I'd like to be prompted for when there are new caches close to my location. So I use the notifications to generate the appropriate emails when a new cache is published. Using gmail, these notifications are automagically forwarded to a specific email account after being received in my main geocaching mail account. I came across a service provided by x-on (no link provided, but you can track it down if you are interested) that allows 3 free emails to be sent to a mobile by SMS per day. I don't anticipate receiving more than 3 per day (usually that many per week would be a maximum) so I thought I might be able to use that to receive some up to date notification. I can email perfectly fine to the SMS number and receive the SMS quickly. But when the email is created automatically (either by filtering by gmail and forwarding, or alternatively using xfruits to create an RSS from gmail and then use xfruits again to email the RSS feed to the SMS email number) it doesn't arrive. I suspect that the x-on free service is ignoring emails where the header shows that it isn't a "normal" email - i.e. forwarded etc. Does anyone know of any way of making this work, or an alternative way of getting a few emails sent to SMS? My mobile provider (virgin) doesn't have a working email to SMS gateway for PAYG customers (despite some websites claiming that they do). THanks a lot for any help / pointers. Matt
  14. I am trying to get my alerts and preferred email / SMS workin spent about 20 mins with ATT ...no blocking on their side i just now removed and re-added my sms and validated again...now emails come from “invalid@geocaching.com” with an odd html attached file any thoughts on how to get back to normal?
  15. Hrmrmrh... If it is greylisting, really nothing I can do. I am relying on gmail address (android phone already forces me to the have app and account) to get alerts when they actually happen. I have since setup forwarding from gmail to my sms address, we'll see what happens there... The reason I believe Groundspeak is altering the body of the message sent directly to sms is because of the language used: "Subject: New Multi-cache: cache title (GCxxxxx) x.xxmi E (xx.xxkm E) Go find GCxxxxx: http://coord.info/GCxxxxx" The link seems to be a shortcut to the cache page. In the Gmail email, the exact same subject is used. The body appears to be completely different. No where does it use the text "Go find GCxxxxx: http://coord.info/GCxxxxx" not even in the "original message" unless it's encoded in to the base64 part. The text "Go find CGxxxxx:" is coming from Groundspeak, not a 3rd party stripping things out. Can they encode the same message such that if it's going to SMS one part is sent/visible, and if it's going to email, a different part is sent/visible? Anyway, the point is to figure out why the alerts sent directly to SMS are so delayed. If Cricket is greylisting Groundspeak (why?) that's that I'll not pursue further. If the delay is something Groundspeak can fix, or pressure Cricket to fix, that'd be great! Thanks for everyone's input.
  16. I guess you can ask the seller to send you the code by email, sms, etc.
  17. After update was added secondary e-mail validation. I used mobile e-mail to sms at my mobile operator, every mail which come to this mail address are send to mobile phone as sms, but there are sent only first 60 characters. Than I´m not able to validate this e-mail addres!!! There is no mail box, only resend to mobile phone.
  18. I do not believe Groundspeak sends different emails depending on your particular email client. Rather, I believe the issue could be that Groundspeak emails are all in HTML, not plain text, and your phone carrier is stripping out HTML content to reduce those emails to an SMS. That potentially accounts for both the delay and for the less than optimal content you receive. My money is on this, and not on any greylisting. If you're using a smart phone, a better solution might be to use an email app to your phone to check the address to which Groundspeak sends your notification emails. If you prefer the SMS option, this thread discusses a script that strips down Groundspeak emails, which could help. I can't speak to its utility, as I don't use it - I only recall seeing the discussion. Other discussions on SMS and email are available by searching through old forum threads. Here's the search I used. Hope this helps.
  19. No, it's not a different email. I just looked at the source for the notification email I got for my recent multi. It contains two parts, one with "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8" and the other "Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8", both encoded as base-64. The text/html part is what I see in my email client: whereas the text/plain section, when I put the base-64 content into an online decoder, contains this: That's the bit that's being forwarded to your SMS. It's the same email coming out of Groundspeak regardless of its destination, it's just the recipient that's deciding which bit of it to display. Your delays are happening within your email to SMS provider.
  20. Thanks barefootjeff, you nailed it. I did not see the tiny encoded text/plain section when I looked through the email, but sure enough, it is there. Since my cell provider seems to be the problem, it will be interesting to see if the email forwarded from my Gmail to my SMS address will be delayed the same as the email from Groundspeak to my SMS address... Still waiting for the next new cache alert.
  21. The WAP interface is ok in a pinch when it comes to logging caches on the go, but not quite as fast as I would prefer. I have to reload my phones minibrowser and log back in to gc.com each time that I want to log a cache. My proposed solution: Logging caches by sms or by e-mail. I think it would be great to send a text message to an e-mail address and have it posted as a log. Similar to some of the moblogs out there every user could have a private e-mail address assigned that would be theirs to send logs to. Another option would be to have cachers register their phone number, and everyone send to the same e-mail address, then their logs could be automaticaly sorted out using the phone number that they came from. Just a thought.
  22. SPOT devices are hardly similar to Garmin inReach devices. SPOT devices offer the user a one-way outgoing emergency distress call option, that once initiated, the user can only hope and/or assume was received and help is on the way, and the emergency responders have no way ascertaining any information related to the nature of the distress call. Garmin inReach devices, which the Montana 700i and 750i are, offer bi-directional communication 24 hrs a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Garmin inReach devices allow the user to transmit pertinent information to the responding crew while receiving instructions that can help save lives while keeping everyone on the same page, in real time. Garmin inReach devices allow users to automatically send a bread-crumb trail of there location to the cloud where friends, family members and other authorized individuals can keep track of their location and progress, in real time, without requiring any other action on the users part. Garmin inReach devices allow users to communicate bi-directionally with the entire outside world via direct messaging, sms, and email. This means you can not only send regular detailed updates to family and friends to reassure them of your condition or any specific needs, or changes in schedule etc, but so can they send you the same types of information, available directly on your inReach device, anywhere in the world, 24/7/365. Garmin inReach devices can provide the user with highly detailed hour by hour weather forecasts for any location on Earth, from any location on Earth, at any time desired, 24/7/365, assisting the user in adapting their trip in such a way they can avoid inclement weather conditions that may otherwise leave someone stranded and/or worse. Garmin inReach devices also allow users to post timely updates about their trip to their Facebook and Twitter accounts, 24/7/365. Remember, with a SPOT, you just push a button, and then wait, hoping the signal went out and was received and someone is on the way. With a Garmin inReach device, you are always in contact with the entire world, from anywhere in the world, so you and your loved one never have to wonder or guess about your status.
  23. As in getting a notification from the geocaching app, or as in getting an SMS? The former would be a new feature solution. The latter has been discussed in many a thread - search for email AND SMS.
  24. I don't believe the site sends instant notifications by direct text; my understanding is that it sends them to your phone by email-to-SMS. Try going to edit your profile, choose email preferences, add the email-to-SMS address for your new # and delete the old one. See option 2 here as well as the list of email-to-SMS addresses here.
  25. I can see many issues immediately! inReach sends SOS to proper authorities for your actual location, NOT where you registered the device! Seems to me this alone could be a life or death difference when response time is of the essence! Also, the inReach devices offer many additional features and capabilities that the PLB does not, including allowing others to track you progress in real time from anywhere on the planet, and allowing two way email and SMS communication between yourself and friends or family, as well as the Rescue Crew after an SOS is Triggered, which allows you to provide important information with them in real time, and that may make all the difference in a rescue attempt. inReach devices also allow the user to view detailed weather forecasts and conditions for any location on Earth, from any location on Earth, any time they desire. This feature may actually help the user prevent putting themselves into a situation that will require rescue. You know the saying... The easiest fights to win are the ones that never happen? According to multiple articles online (example 01, example 02), more than 98% of PLB distress signals are false alarms, and many agencies regard them as a nuisance, unlike inReach devices which require subscriptions to function. As always, YMMV.
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