Cingular cell phone service - Using txt.att.com without splitting the email

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Using txt.att.com without splitting the email

42elife@gmail.com

2007-09-22, 10:33 pm

I used to use [number]@mmode.com to foreword all my incoming emails to
that so that I would get a sms notification as soon as I get an email.
However, I now switched to new phone and @mmode.com does not work any
more, now I have to use @txt.att.com.

The problem is, now I get 10 or more sms messages per email, because
it splits the email and sends it in multiple parts. That adds up like
crazy. Is there a way to truncate the emails like mmode.com used to
do?

Any 3rd party servers that will take my emails, truncate them, and
pass them on as only one sms?

Thank you.

- Bogdan

Tinman

2007-09-23, 10:33 am

<42elife@gmail.com> wrote:
>I used to use [number]@mmode.com to foreword all my incoming emails to
> that so that I would get a sms notification as soon as I get an email.
> However, I now switched to new phone and @mmode.com does not work any
> more, now I have to use @txt.att.com.
>
> The problem is, now I get 10 or more sms messages per email, because
> it splits the email and sends it in multiple parts. That adds up like
> crazy. Is there a way to truncate the emails like mmode.com used to
> do?
>
> Any 3rd party servers that will take my emails, truncate them, and
> pass them on as only one sms?
>

I don't have an answer, but I would like a solution to this problem myself.

I came from Sprint and also have certain email forwarded to my phone. Sprint
would truncate email so it fit as a single SMS message. Ironically I had
(have--still have Sprint on 2 phones) unlimited SMS.

When I first noticed that at&t sent the email as multiple messages I was
happy--as I didn't need to go into an email app to see the entire message.

But now it's annoying, and I'd like to prevent the splitting into multiple
SMS messages--or at least limit it to 2 or 3 (10 is absurd, IMO).

--
Mike

42elife@gmail.com

2007-09-23, 10:33 pm

On Sep 23, 8:24 am, "Tinman" <a...@for.it> wrote:
> <42el...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> I don't have an answer, but I would like a solution to this problem myself.
>
> I came from Sprint and also have certain email forwarded to my phone. Sprint
> would truncate email so it fit as a single SMS message. Ironically I had
> (have--still have Sprint on 2 phones) unlimited SMS.
>
> When I first noticed that at&t sent the email as multiple messages I was
> happy--as I didn't need to go into an email app to see the entire message.
>
> But now it's annoying, and I'd like to prevent the splitting into multiple
> SMS messages--or at least limit it to 2 or 3 (10 is absurd, IMO).
>
> --
> Mike

Mike,

I am not sure how reliable this solution is, have not spoke with ATT
rep about this yet, but I am currently using mms to read my email,
found out about it yesterday. You just send the email to
number@mms.att.net and it arrives as a MMS on your phone. I talked to
3 sales people and all of them said that the MMS costs me the same as
SMS, no matter the size. I do not know if that is true, however. The
cool thing is, assuming that it's 10cents/per is that I get the entire
email as one MMS. I have to read it in the WAP browser, because it
comes as a web page, but that's fine, I get the full text email. Some
times, if some one sends me attachments those come through as well. I
am not sure again about the cost until I call them on Monday, but like
I mentioned, all the ATT sales raps in the local mall insist that it's
just like a SMS.

Let me know if you can figure out anything else.

- Bogdan

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