John Morse wrote: > Are you serious... you can really create a filter to call a phone > number when a new message arrives? > Tell me more!
:) Yeah, it's pretty cool. And simple too! Note that I am utilizing text messaging service provided by my wireless carrier (mine is AT&T Wireless). I can send an e-mail to: <my wireless number>@mobile.att.net and the message will go to my phone as a text message. This varies from provider to provider - AT&T charges for *sending* text messages, but doesn't charge for *receiving* them, so this suits me especially well. Also, the way that AT&T handles text messages is well-suited to my ham-fisted approach. I think other providers may balk at large messages or messages with attachments. But this could be addressed in the filter within TB. So for me, it's a simple filter that redirects all mail sent to my business account to <my wireless number>@mobile.att.net - a redirect send a copy, by the way, so the message still goes to my Inbox. I set this filter to be active only when the screen saver is on (great flexibility of the bat!) and this has worked beautifully for some time now. The only problem is as I described - that is the "Don't send attachments" option does not appear to work. If this is truly a bug, then it may prevent some people from using a filter like this - I seem to recall some of the other wireless providers do balk at attachments being sent as a text message. Anyway, this filter alone has created a number of "oohs" and "ahhs" from business associates (which helps combat the effect of my boorish personality). I do also subscribe to a data plan with AT&T GPRS/GSM service so that I can log on with my phone and get the entire e-mail if necessary (or with my Palm Tungsten) <--- geek alert! To be honest, I would say that upwards of 75-80% of the time, just getting the text message is enough, which gives me the first 155 characters of a message. Of course, this does bring up the whole top posting/bottom posting issue.... If someone bottom posts (who in the world would do *that*?!) then you will still get notified they sent you a response, but you won't be able read the message. -- Ken Green Using The Bat! v1.62r on Windows 2000 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 4 ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.01.3 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
