+Bicardi151 Posted January 29, 2022 Share Posted January 29, 2022 I have the same email address, but a new phone number from the original one I had validated when I set up notifications. When trying to change it I removed the old one and now I can't find any way to add the new one! Now it only shows my email? Thanks Quote Link to comment
+ChriBli Posted January 29, 2022 Share Posted January 29, 2022 I don't recall ever having supplied a phone number. And for notifications? Did you use to get a text message as notification? I would love that, since I don't have email on my phone, but when I went premium email was the only option. Maybe this is something that changed since you joined? Quote Link to comment
+peter-tvm Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 Getting mails forwarded as an SMS sounds like an function from your e-mail provider. So I suggest that you look in the settings in your mail provider for that. I'm curious where in the settings on geocaching.com you where able to add an phone number? I did found this tread about the subject: And this in the help center: https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=7&pgid=184 Quote Link to comment
+Twinklekitkat Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 I tested sending myself an email to a text on my phone from Yahoo and it worked. I then set up mynumber@mobilecarriername.com as spelled out in the help center. I did this under email preferences in my profile. However, it now says 'verify this address'. I have clicked that link and received a text message from geocaching.com. I clicked the link in the text to validate it but it does not validate. It just returns to 'verify this address'. Since I can't get my number validated it is not available as a choice in the email selection when setting up a notification. Has anyone been able to set this up recently? Quote Link to comment
+Bicardi151 Posted January 31, 2022 Author Share Posted January 31, 2022 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 Quote Link to comment
+ChriBli Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 Interesting. Unfortunately, no carriers in Scandinavia (where I reside) offer this service nowadays. Makes sense I guess, as everyone (but me) can receive email directly to their phones now. There are third-party services, but those are not free of charge. I'm a bit curious still of how this could actually work, if I look at a typical notification message it is full of html rubbish and even the actual message stripped of all tags is much more that 160 characters. Is it received as multiple text messages? Quote Link to comment
+arisoft Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 51 minutes ago, ChriBli said: I'm a bit curious still of how this could actually work, if I look at a typical notification message it is full of html rubbish and even the actual message stripped of all tags is much more that 160 characters. Is it received as multiple text messages? One way is using multimedia messaging service MMS. "The MMS standard extends the core SMS (Short Message Service) capability, allowing the exchange of text messages greater than 160 characters in length." Quote Link to comment
+ChriBli Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 35 minutes ago, arisoft said: One way is using multimedia messaging service MMS. "The MMS standard extends the core SMS (Short Message Service) capability, allowing the exchange of text messages greater than 160 characters in length." 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. Quote Link to comment
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