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Ask HN: Are there any SMS-alert-on-email-message-pattern-match services?
1 point by cpr on Aug 23, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment
What I'd like to do is use a service (should be cheap--$1/month?) that watches my email for a particular header pattern (usually a subject pattern), and sends my phone an SMS alerting me to that message.

(In my case, it's sales messages.)

I don't need "push" email in this case, the obvious solution, as I only really care about a few critical emails.

This seems so obvious, someone should have already done it...




An easy way to do it would be to set up a filter in your e-mail program to forward e-mails with your pattern to your cellphone. Most providers give you an e-mail address that sends SMS to your phone. For example AT&T have [number]@txt.att.net and it will forward to your phone number as a SMS.




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