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I do agree and disagree with you. I am using Instant Notification with SMS for my 20-30 km circle. Yes, that is fast, because I get SMS and email in the same minute. For the rest of the country, I have a GC FTF Pro android app, which is not 100% reliable, and has 15 minute update time. I am using app mostly for events, but also for FTF's if I am in that region. Time on web page would help me to decide to go for FTF or not.

I use IOS and ATT, as of Friday Nov 3, I stopped receiving alerts/notifications. I receive email notifications, but not TXT or SMS. HQ is working, but curious if others are experiencing the same. I'm aware of a few others impacted, locally, wondering if issue is wider spread. I haven't been able to locate a thread here.

Im running Linux and right now every little script and fiddling about with my system has something to do with geocaching. Im lost in geocaching so to speak... Anyway this little tip is part of something a bit more complex, but i get back to that when its done. I have set up my email, that is registered with geocaching.com, to automatically send a sms to my phone whenever a new cache appears in my neighbourhood, or at the latest 10 min after the mail was recieved from geocaching.com. First the obvious. You have to set up a notification for new caches on the GC site, and you have to be Premium for that Then when the email arrives in your inbox, i have set up a filter to forward this email to (my phonenumber)@sms.world-text.com that will send a sms to my phone. www.world-text.com is a sms gateway service and so it costs money. But for the hard core FTF hunter a few $ per year may be worth it. Offcourse if you live in a BIG city and lots of ppl are planting lots of caches and you have set up your radius to 500 miles this will be expensive, so think with your wallet when you are setting up your notification. This is really easy and fast to setup. Here is a picture of my filtersettings, it in swedish but I think you get the ide. This should work for any modern email client. This thing also need for you to keep your computer with your emailclient running. But as i said this is just a part of something else. If you dont want your computer running all the time, but still want to be able to have this working whenever you get the FTF itch. There is simple ways to remotely start your computer from your phone and if running linux there is simple ways to remotely shut them down. To turn it on, it should be the same for any PC at least, running whatever system. Just enable WAKE ON LAN or WAKE ON RING or something depending on your BIOS. Then have a look at http://code.google.com/p/microwow/. And as a Linuxuser i use http://www.xk72.com/midpssh/ which has macros to use for shutting down. If you remotely start your computer you also need to autologin to your computer and have your emailclient start automatically. This is how im running this right now, but the dream would be to have one script to do it all. So if any of you have some ideas on how to shell script this in a sweet way, i would jump of joy Keep on hunting

SMS will give you the notification however due to SMS character limitations (160 characters) it cuts it to almost unusable after the header is in there. To get the whole message, it is easier to use the MMS email found here. For instance, in Verizon instead of using xxxxxxxxxx@vtext.com you would use the MMS equivalent of xxxxxxxxxx@vzwpix.com. xxxxxxxxxx being your phone number. MMS does not have the character limitations of SMS. MMS stands for Multimedia Messaging System and is what is used to transport pictures and videos. Some services may charge extra or have a addition to your plan, so check first. Okay I check all the My cell is able to email also. SMS ALSO MMS But I am still not getting to my email address I have XXXXXX@msn.com I have got one though email for than 3 weeks I would like I would like to get Notifications to my email address.......

I can't possibly be the first to have this issue, but I can't find a related topic when I search the forums: I have notification alerts set up to email my gmail account, which in turn uses filters to forward the emails to my smartphone as SMS texts (using my phone number along with the "@phonecompany.com" extension provided by my carrier). However, they are so polluted with HTML code that they are absolutely impossible to read. Here's an example: * { -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; } body { Margin: 0; padding: 0; min-width: 100%; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; } table { border-spacing: 0; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; } img { border: 0; } a { color: #2B7277; } li { padding-bottom: .75em; } hr { background-color: #9B9B9B; border: none; height: 2px; margin: 40px 0; } .wrapper { width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; } .webkit { max-width: 600px; } .outer { Margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; max-width: 600px; } .full-width-image img { width: 100%; max-width: 600px; height: auto; } .inner { padding: 10px; } p { Margin: 0; padding-bottom: 10px; } .one-column p { color: #4a4a4a; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; } .contents { width: 100%; } .three-column { text-align: center; font-size: 0; padding-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; } .three-column .column { width: 100%; max-width: 140px; display: inline-block; } .three-column .column td { width: 200px; max-width: 100%; } /* For iOS and other clients' auto-generated links */ .override a { color: #ffffff !important; } .override span { color: #ffffff; border-color: #ffffff; } a[x-apple-data-detectors] { color: inherit !important; text-decoration: underline !important; font-size: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-weight: inherit !important; line-height: inherit !important; }  ORC-3762.32 (GC94567) has a new log: Logged by: rileyLog Type: Found itDate: 04/26/2017Location: Ohio, United StatesType: Traditional Cache Log: Tinnyyy This email was sent by Geocaching HQ. 837 N. 34th Street, Suite 300, Seattle, WA 98103 USA © 2017 Groundspeak, Inc. DBA Geocaching. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy      Once upon a time, YEARS ago, there were options for some emails to be delivered text only. I realize that sending emails in plain text prevents any behind-the-scenes tracking and data manipulation to take place on the emails that are sent out, so the chances of getting an option to send plain text emails are slim to none, but has anyone figured out a way of getting the notification emails to be readable in a text app? Or maybe a relay service that will strip HTML out of an email and forward it to another address?

Except that the MC doesn't work on Groundspeak's paid app, or on any of the third-party API-based apps, or on any of the GPX-based apps, or on the site-scraping app that shall not be named. And not everyone who uses a smartphone app for geocaching is into IM or SMS. I use my phone for voice calls or for email. SMS messages can sit on my phone for weeks before I even notice they're there. Yeah, I don't like the "gotta log it immediately, gotta respond immediately" trend either. It's a game about finding hidden containers, not a production datacenter that went offline.

All of the notifications sent out are emails. SMS is not a direct option. You will need to use the SMS Gateway for your carrier if you want them sent as SMS. Note that SMS will typically be limited in length. Using the MMS address (if you have that option) will give you more characters. Here's a list of gateways for various carriers. http://www.mutube.com/projects/open-email-...s/gateway-list/

I am trying to figure out how to send my notifications to my cell phone Am thouroughly confused dont know what I am doing any help would be greatly appreciated All Notifications are sent out as Email not as SMS. You must use the SMS Gateway for your carrier in order to send the notifications to your cell phone. If you list what phone carrier you are with, people can tell you what the SMS Gateway is. Alternately, just send an SMS from your phone to an email address that you use, and you will see what address to use for the notifications. Well I am currently with US cellular

I am trying to figure out how to send my notifications to my cell phone Am thouroughly confused dont know what I am doing any help would be greatly appreciated All Notifications are sent out as Email not as SMS. You must use the SMS Gateway for your carrier in order to send the notifications to your cell phone. If you list what phone carrier you are with, people can tell you what the SMS Gateway is. Alternately, just send an SMS from your phone to an email address that you use, and you will see what address to use for the notifications.

Yes and no. I'm saying that you can have alerts sent to one email address. Not device, email address. Now if you use that address on multiple devices you get alerts to multiple devices. Since you use gmail already, you can download the gmail app to your phone. Just log in with your existing account. When you get a new notification, it your phone will ring, or buzz, or whatever, just like when you get a text message. Your phone breaks and get a new one? Get a new number? No problem-use the same account. No need to mess around and add a new email address every time. Get them on your Windows phone, your kids iPhone, your computer, even your neighbors Android, all with one email address. I don't know about Windows, but I have an iPhone. I get the notification, and if I click the link to the cache, I can open it either on the internet browser, or the geocaching app. Don't think you can do that with the SMS based notifications. Your phone is capable of doing this, no need to do it with SMS.

Hi oerterg, We have had reports of this type of behavior in the past, but each time our systems show a single email being sent to an email -> SMS address. The messages eventually stop, but unfortunately there is nothing on our side that we can do that would alleviate the issue once it has begun. If you would like to privately send me the email address that you were using for the notification I can check our systems to confirm that we are not sending duplicate notifications to you. Thanks!

All the alerts are sent out as email. There are no text message alerts. But you can use the SMS gateway for your phone carrier to have the alerts sent to your phone. Note that you may receive multiple text messages per alerts, so you will want to be sure that you have enough coverage in your phone plan. Here's a fairly comprehensive SMS Gateway list. http://www.mutube.com/projects/open-email-...s/gateway-list/ The SMS Gateway address looks like (and is) an email address, but the messages received by your phone are SMS (ie text messages). The typical format is your10digitphonenumber@yourphonecarrier.com

You can use the SMS Gateway for your phone carrier to have the notifications sent to your device as SMS messages. Here's a fairly comprehensive list. http://www.mutube.com/projects/open-email-...s/gateway-list/ Note that the messages are emails not SMS so you will likely get multiple messages per notification and may not receive the entire message via SMS due to truncation on some carriers. If you can receive MMS on your device, that's typically a better option as you can receive 1000 characters in an MMS.

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.

Yes, exactly I know that. But Groundspeak says, as a PM, you could get notifications to your cell phone: Look there: https://www.geocaching.com/Membership/Default.aspx (only visible, if you are non PM, otherwise you have to log out to see it!) "Be Instantly Notified of Geocaches Be the first to find a geocache when you receive Instant Notifications about newly published geocaches on your cell phone or other mobile device." It says, you receive it on your cell phone! Not on your computer! Forwarding email to sms is pretty useless without coordinates, if I have no internet available. If I have internet-access, I don't need any sms, since I get my emails. And, on the other hand - if you use your providers gateway to convert email to SMS, you have to pay extra for each SMS. So where is the Premium Feature that made me pay 30$ for a membership? If it does not exist: Does anybody know, how I can withdraw my membership and get my money back?

Good point. I also get emails because the texts don't have a url in them.... Usually, the text alerts me to check the email. I check the email, click the url for the cache on my phone, and viola. I've never had a case where I got a text and there was no email, so what you say is likely true... that texts come in later. Thanks for the info. A few years ago I developed a subscription based bulk email application that distributes reports produced by a well known U.S. government agency. I manages hundreds of distribution lists and sends out hundreds of different reports a day with thousands of subscribers. A few of the reports have over 10,000 subscribers. I don't know how GS does it but my app builds the list of email addresses ordered by the numerical ID for each user (those that subscribed earlier are near the beginning of the list). Because the number of email addresses is large I break it up into "batches" (500 in each batch) and use a mechanism called multi-threading to launch multiple processes simultaneously to deliver the messages. Even with a distribution list with thousands of subscribers the process of constructing the list and sending the email takes only a few seconds. That doesn't mean that that subscribers will all receive a copy of the email message within seconds. Each SMTP server which accepts the email may be configured differently. In some cases it may run every 15 minutes to deliver (copy the message into the users inbox) messages it has received. If there is a smtp to sms gateway in place that may also queue messages for delivery. I did some testing one where I send a message to three different email addresses and checked the time when each one was received. One came in almost immediately, and one took almost a half an hour. I have my GS notifications tied to a gmail account. Awhile back I posted a owner maintenance log on a cache I own and got a copy of the message in my gmail account *before* the response web page rendered. Long story short, the number of people in your area that have notifications set up for new caches is probably pretty low and the order in which your email address appears on the list is likely not going to make a difference. The amount of time it takes to send the notification is minimal. The bottleneck is at the server which receives the message and stuffs into your inbox (which can be set up to forward the message as a text message).

Sort of, or at least you can accomplish what I think you are looking for. You need to have it sent to your phone as MMS, assuming you can get it from your provider (most can). Unlike SMS which has a character limit, MMS will send you the message in its entirety in one message. Examples of the different carrier addresses can be found here. MMS is picture messaging, correct? And I would be charged the same as for a pic message? Also, according to that list, my MMS address is the same as what I have been using for SMS. If it is the same address and you are not incurring charges for the SMS messages than you shouldn't for MMS. Not knowing your carrier (although I will assume not at&t or Verizon since they have different emails for both) , to find out how the message comes over and assuming you can not force MMS, you need to try one. If it comes over truncated then it is SMS, if you get the full message it is coming MMS. There is no way to control it on the GC side, so if it comes over truncated I would contact your carrier, the list may have the wrong email however expect to have to push the issue with Tier 1 support since it took a week of training how to push the button that answers your call. Yep, every time I use that address it comes over in 2 parts. Do I have to activate something on my phone besides from just using that address? Otherwise it looks like I will just have to contact customer support. (I have Alltel, by the way)

Sort of, or at least you can accomplish what I think you are looking for. You need to have it sent to your phone as MMS, assuming you can get it from your provider (most can). Unlike SMS which has a character limit, MMS will send you the message in its entirety in one message. Examples of the different carrier addresses can be found here. MMS is picture messaging, correct? And I would be charged the same as for a pic message? Also, according to that list, my MMS address is the same as what I have been using for SMS. If it is the same address and you are not incurring charges for the SMS messages than you shouldn't for MMS. Not knowing your carrier (although I will assume not at&t or Verizon since they have different emails for both) , to find out how the message comes over and assuming you can not force MMS, you need to try one. If it comes over truncated then it is SMS, if you get the full message it is coming MMS. There is no way to control it on the GC side, so if it comes over truncated I would contact your carrier, the list may have the wrong email however expect to have to push the issue with Tier 1 support since it took a week of training how to push the button that answers your call.

Some providers have a character limit for email to SMS (text) and cuts off some stuff. If the link was cut off it won't take you to the proper page. A solution if you're using a smartphone, is to use an email app. I use Gmail. The app alerts me whenever I get a new email. I don't have to worry about this problem, and I can access the emails anywhere, any device.

Thank you, I knew that. Unfortunatly my provider doesn't send me the email. My provider sends me a SMS notification that I have an email, I then have to type "Read", then they convert the email into SMS and charge me $ for sending me the email. Since SMS receive is free, I would rather the geocaching.com notification be already in SMS format instead of email format.

Since the notification system only sends to email addresses, it sounds like the problem may be with the email to SMS gateway you're using.

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Try this: - send a text msg to your email. Instead of typing a phone number, use your email address. Most carriers will convert this to an email on their server. - when you get the email, check the sender. That should be the email address for your SMS/MMS. - send an email address to that and see if a text on your phone shows up.

You won't find anywhere to enter a cell number. As described in the instructions above, you need to determine the email-to-SMS address for your phone number. ... >snip< ... For example, to send an email as a text to a Verizon cell phone, you would use phonenumber@vtext.com where phonenumber is the 10-digit cell phone number. Each provider has their own domain (the @whatever part), but they pretty much use the phone number as the individual email recipient portion (before the @). You can do a simple web search for something like email to at&t cell phone or email to sprint cell phone to find the particulars. Some of them use a separate domain for text (example ##########@txt.att.net) versus multi-media message (example ##########@mms.att.net). I've been doing this a lot lately because I have lousy cell reception at home (need to get one of those repeater thingies), and I can sometimes receive messages, but a lot of sends fail. So I send via Thunderbird using a profile that makes it look like my cell phone sent the message. I've added contacts for a lot of my family and friends using their appropriate ##########@domain. Edit: I forgot to mention that Straight Talk (by Walmart) is a little odd. It actually uses either Verizon or AT&T as the underlying carrier. My pastor had been using Verizon with a regular contract, but he switched to Straight Talk keeping the same cell number. I tried to send him the hymn numbers for next Sunday using the Verizon #@vtext.com and it bounced back. So I tried AT&T's #@txt.att.net and it worked.

Not a guarantee, however the probability to receive a reply is much higher when sending e-mail messages to cachers who are around for several years and are used to that system and its advantages in comparison to the MC. Many cachers in my country have turned off the notifications for MC messages and do not react to them at all. [emphasis mine.] Why is everything always a protest? Boycotts and all? People are trying to contact you and succeed. Reply with your actual email address (well, its forwarding alias ), with one courteous reply to use that email address and not MC which you don't like. If the OP actually does mean he's in fact using PM and that email may be getting lost, your country's plan makes communication much more difficult. I hope you're wrong, but I think you're right . That is, I see no reason the edit box could not be made like every other edit box on the site... why it must be two scrolling lines of text. I agree that it's been set up as a fad social media chat area that really can't work in a PC environment unless everyone keeps that Message page open and available as a Smartphone can. Yet the PM system on the web site (and I guess "email" in general) is difficult for Phone users. I would have like to see the MC become so much more, such as having "MC" integrated with cache logs. That is, a privately sent "Message" could be right there in the context of the log that it's talking about, visible to the parties in the message. As is, it's a kind of unfinished SMS thing, which competes with full-featured systems that already exist on Smartphones.