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(got this info from Jors many moons ago) I have a number with MTN. and one can register an email account with them which is: <cell phone numbner>@mtnloaded.co.za When that email account gets an email, you are sent the notification via SMS that a new email has arrived. So with this solution there is no need to poll the server. The problem though is that the SMS notifications do not always come through. But I would say they do 70 to 80% of the time.

If your phone also supports MMS as well as SMS, you could send a message from your phone to your regular email address. Do this using your messaging app, not the email app. When you receive the message at your regular email, you can look at the From address to get your phone's email address.

some people like this game solo, other like to play it a few or a larger group, just see how many show up at events its a smash hit ! we are now quite a few here, organized with email and heytell for super fast live responce while we are on the road, we team up spontaniously a few times pr week, the ones who want pop up and take a few or many together. it is very easy to add new members to your crew, specially if you got skils or equipment or is just this really nice dude that is plesant to hang out with. so just go for it.. contact a few of the closest via email, see if they like to show up and make a little caching together, you see how fast the group grow. another thing is, all Danish CO and active players can get into one special list of phone numbers for SMS, mostly used for help and hints. It works like this: you join the list to get access to the list, then friendly people start to call you, if you alowed this in the list, or you could have written SMS only or what ever. The list is made in many formats so it can be used on all kinds of GPS units and phones, so you have it with you always and can search in it fast. You could also start something like this too.

If you don't want to validate a new email address, or you can't on your phone, most email providers will let you set up a rule to forward messages to your phone's email. I have this rule set up under filters on GMail Matches: subject:([GEO] Notify:) Do this: Forward to 1234567890@mycarrier.com <-replace this with your sms#

When you go to the page that gives you your carrier email-to-sms, what do you do if there are a total of 5 of your carrier listed?

Thanks guys, I followed the link to Groundspeak and found the information useful. I also found a list of SMS gateways. The telstra gateway was : sms@tim.telstra.com(mobile@sms.tim.telstra.com). I am not sure what if anything I have to do with this. I tried putting my mobile phone number instead of the word "mobile" and was told it was not a valid email address. I dont know what to do next.

If you have a email to text service, some operators have one, or there are third party operators which you generally have to pay for. Google 'email to sms'

The information provided is wrong. You don't need Internet access for receiving text messages. You need to be on a cell provider that offers an email-to-SMS gateway. Internet access on y our phone has nothing to do with that. Not exactly. In order to confirm the new email address, you have to visit a web hotlink, so you do need internet. Good point. You don't actually have to visit that link from the phone though. If you can get the URL to a PC somehow (in the worst case you can just type it in), it would still work. Another option is not to use the mail2sms address directly, but use an intermediate forwarding address instead. At first the emails go to your desktop, just to confirm the address, then you redirect it to the gateway. The only problem with that is in order to get the cache coordinates, you do need to access the cache listing.

The information provided is wrong. You don't need Internet access for receiving text messages. You need to be on a cell provider that offers an email-to-SMS gateway. Internet access on y our phone has nothing to do with that. Not exactly. In order to confirm the new email address, you have to visit a web hotlink, so you do need internet. Good point. You don't actually have to visit that link from the phone though. If you can get the URL to a PC somehow (in the worst case you can just type it in), it would still work. Another option is not to use the mail2sms address directly, but use an intermediate forwarding address instead. At first the emails go to your desktop, just to confirm the address, then you redirect it to the gateway.

The information provided is wrong. You don't need Internet access for receiving text messages. You need to be on a cell provider that offers an email-to-SMS gateway. Internet access on y our phone has nothing to do with that. Not exactly. In order to confirm the new email address, you have to visit a web hotlink, so you do need internet. However, I have a fairly cheap prepaid phone that does have internet. I recommend you report this as a bug.

The information provided is wrong. You don't need Internet access for receiving text messages. You need to be on a cell provider that offers an email-to-SMS gateway. Internet access on y our phone has nothing to do with that. Not exactly. In order to confirm the new email address, you have to visit a web hotlink, so you do need internet. However, I have a fairly cheap prepaid phone that does have internet.

The information provided is wrong. You don't need Internet access for receiving text messages. You need to be on a cell provider that offers an email-to-SMS gateway. Internet access on y our phone has nothing to do with that.

I believe some will point out it (in their opinions) that it was already "sanctioned" when they advertised premium memberships and the instant notification feature could be used for "chasing FTF's". I didn't see this was in the newsletter, but it was tweeted by the official Geocaching.com blog today as a short blog post. I think, in my opinion, they're just pointing out to people that they can have the standard cache notification email converted (via an email to SMS gateway that is provider specific) to a text message, which I'm sure many people don't know. Standard text message rates apply (I always wanted to say that).

You set it up as your-number@SMS-gateway. For example, for Verizon it's 1234567890@vzwpix.com Complete list Ok...now I see. It's still an e-mail. You're just sending it via a special address. You're using that e-mail (to your phone) as your primary e-mail address on geocaching.com? What those services do is convert the email to a text message, which then gets sent to you. You can have notifications sent to a different email address than your primary one, so I assume that's how the OP has it set up. I know of several cachers in my area that have it set up this way.

haha wow, you dug up a 2 1/2 year old thread to ask a question that has nothing to do with the topic (just thought I'd point that out) edit: ok it does sort of - you're asking about publish notifications so you have a better chance of grabbing the FTF. See end of the comment It is a nice discussion topic though, but prime for continued debate... I read the first page before realizing I was reading 2009. That said, Tobias - 1st page response - hit the nail on the head. In my area there are a few "ftf hounds", and we tend to remember who has the best chances of getting them in what areas of the city, closest to where they live. The FTF race does also have its social aspects having that little 'geochat' at gz when the hounds all show up at the same time for the win is a wonderful experience. ETA: Yes, you can set up notifications if you're a premium member. If you have a mobile phone with email, you can set up your primary account contact email to forward/copy emails to your phone. For me, Rogers provides an SMS txt message alert when I receive new email to my phone, so as soon as a publish notification email is sent out, I get the alert on my phone. Then I check my email and get the info. AFAIK Groundspeak doesn't have an immediate push alert for notifications, outside of sending emails.

Não existe uma forma directa de o fazer. Podes receber alertas por email quando uma nova cache é publicada. Se o teu fornecedor de serviços oferecer alertas por SMS para emails recebidos, podes lá chegar. As notificações por email ("Instant Notifications") são uma funcionalidade para Premium Members. Podes obter mais informações aqui: https://www.geocaching.com/membership/default.aspx Espero ter ajudado

Huh? I don't think so. An email address is an email address. Most people with phones have notifies sent to their phone's sms/mms email address so it comes out as an instant message. People with a "normal" email address may have their client set up to pull mail in only ever 5 or 10 minutes. But the emails all go out at the same time. Well MSN notifies me the instant an email comes in, I load up the page and theres one or more finds at least 45mins prior to the time i got the notify and it happens with many different hiders so its not just one hider giving friends the cache info. An email address is not just an email address, its possible wireless phone domains are in a priority database they could very well be ahead in line. i'm not the only one thats noticed this. I have asked for an enhancement to a feature request that would add automatic time stamping of Publish logs. This functionality would go a long way towards efficient troubleshooting of temporal differences between the publish and notify events.

Huh? I don't think so. An email address is an email address. Most people with phones have notifies sent to their phone's sms/mms email address so it comes out as an instant message. People with a "normal" email address may have their client set up to pull mail in only ever 5 or 10 minutes. But the emails all go out at the same time. Ssshhhhhhhh. I like being a have. Are you a platinum member? (Palladium)

Huh? I don't think so. An email address is an email address. Most people with phones have notifies sent to their phone's sms/mms email address so it comes out as an instant message. People with a "normal" email address may have their client set up to pull mail in only ever 5 or 10 minutes. But the emails all go out at the same time. Ssshhhhhhhh. I like being a have. Are you a platinum member?

Huh? I don't think so. An email address is an email address. Most people with phones have notifies sent to their phone's sms/mms email address so it comes out as an instant message. People with a "normal" email address may have their client set up to pull mail in only ever 5 or 10 minutes. But the emails all go out at the same time. Well MSN notifies me the instant an email comes in, I load up the page and theres one or more finds at least 45mins prior to the time i got the notify and it happens with many different hiders so its not just one hider giving friends the cache info. An email address is not just an email address, its possible wireless phone domains are in a priority database they could very well be ahead in line. i'm not the only one thats noticed this.

Huh? I don't think so. An email address is an email address. Most people with phones have notifies sent to their phone's sms/mms email address so it comes out as an instant message. People with a "normal" email address may have their client set up to pull mail in only ever 5 or 10 minutes. But the emails all go out at the same time. Ssshhhhhhhh. I like being a have.

Huh? I don't think so. An email address is an email address. Most people with phones have notifies sent to their phone's sms/mms email address so it comes out as an instant message. People with a "normal" email address may have their client set up to pull mail in only ever 5 or 10 minutes. But the emails all go out at the same time.

If you prefer text messages, you can also set up the notification feature to use your carrier's email to sms gateway.

SMS messages don't have a guaranteed delivery time. Even phone-to-phone, I've had SMS messages delayed by minutes or even several hours. Sprint is especially bad with this - on several occasions, my wife would text me as I was leaving work asking me to pick up something for dinner, and I wouldn't receive it until I was home - without the item in hand. Email isn't guaranteed either. While usually it's delivered within seconds, there are so many factors that can delay a message that you can't assume that just because an email went out at 8:03 AM, all recipients fot it by 8:05 AM.

Among all the other reasons mentioned, don't forget that PMs can get instant notifications (email or SMS) when a new cache is published nearby.