Email to SMS

Hello,

This is my problem. I want to make a script that when I receive an email to my email account, how can I send an sms/text message instantly to my mobile phone to notify about it? Can anyone point me to right direction.

Any help would be greatly appriciated.

just set up your .forwards file to your regular address, as well as the SMS address.

I couldn't understand

Can you provide me an example or point me to a tutorial? I'm new to this part of programming.

Thanks for reply.

.forward is something Sendmail uses to distribute mail to anyone else you would like to get a copy of mail for that account. I Googled a simple tutorial that tells you how to do it. It is located here:

http://support.discusware.com/center/resources/reply/forward.php

Hmm i thought you had to use an SMS gateway?

in most cases, you can just use email. No SMS gateway required, to my knowledge. Its how Sprint users get out of paying for text messaging

Sprint uses the @messaging.sprintpcs.com
and Verizon uses the @vtext.com domain.

If you look on all of the websites for the wireless dealers, you will notice the "Send a Text Message" box somewhere on the page. They do that using email carriers. The technology is already in place, which makes it cheaper.

I just took a look: AT&T Wireless
Nextel
Sprint PCS
T-Mobile
Verizon Wireless

all can message each other, so I would imagine they all have the same basic web compatibility.

well you can use an sms gateway but it costs and i dont really see what the differance is between the method that nawlej suggests and the paid one so if i ever did this i would do what nawlej suggests.

I think the sms gateway is require to sending sms through web.

is there any chance to find the sms gateway?

i mean i wanna find gateway of Mobicom (gsm provider of Mongolia)

the url is http://www. mobinet.mn

please help me?

my mail is mail2lizard@yahoo.com