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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...

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.)

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.

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?

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

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.

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.