Recently Google labs launched SMS Channel in India. i have created many SMS channel including one for this blog. so i just thought we can use this service for any type of SMS updates using RSS feeds.
Recently i have seen that we can directly get the RSS feeds of GMAIL inbox. so we can use this RSS feeds to get these SMS updates. So if you want your own Gmail inbox SMS channel just put your GMAIL RSS link in SMS channel feed section.
Gmail RSS link will be like this :
https://USERNAME:PASSWORD@gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom
But using this link in SMS channel will expose your Password and ID to whole world, so you can use Feedburner service to hide it [Highly recommended] and create your own RSS feed like this
http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheChetan
Just put this RSS link into your SMS channel rss feeds and get SMS alert for Emails. Remember to select “By invitation only” in “Who can subscribe” option else anyone can subscribe to your sms updates and anyone is subscribed can get those SMS for each e-mail.
Currently this service is available only in India as Google SMS channel is only for india. Many indian carriers supports Google SMS channel like Airtel, Vodafone, Idea etc. so you can enjoy this service of SMS update.
But the only drawback is that if anyone got the link to your Gmail rss feeds he/she can read your e-mails directly !!
Oct 21, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Great news actually.
If I start getting SMS’es for it, I’d get more than 1000 SMS every day and that would be like…aww.
It’d be better if I could subscribe to a particular folder within my inbox!
- Swastik -
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Oct 23, 2008 at 11:36 am
good.. but .. is it free or what ?
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Oct 23, 2008 at 10:09 pm
@Swastik
If it is possible to get feeds of that perticular folder then we can subscribe to that updates.
@dinu
Yes, it Free !
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Oct 26, 2008 at 11:33 pm
I am yet to use gMail though SMS alert would be a great news. However, with the number of spam mails going through the roof, I would get an SMS beep every other minute or so. Fortunately gMail is yet to become as bad as yahoo mail in terms of spam.
Cheers,
Ajith
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Oct 27, 2008 at 4:11 pm
mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom/ is not valid feed for feedburner. but valid for browsers. any other secure feed reader ??
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Oct 27, 2008 at 5:21 pm
Its working fine me dude, You need to give Username and Password as specified by me at FeedBurner.
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Oct 30, 2008 at 7:47 am
Chetan, thanks for letting me know this new feature..
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Oct 31, 2008 at 11:37 pm
Thats great trick dude, thanks for sharing
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Nov 3, 2008 at 8:21 am
By doing this will the created channel appear in any listings on of other listings…?
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Nov 3, 2008 at 9:11 am
@ShaDow
Yes, it will appear !!
Thats what the problem is.
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Nov 13, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Chetan,
I’ve done evertything including feedburner process, still when i sent a trial email from my yahoo id to gmail id, i didnt receive any sms for the same. pls guide me.
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Nov 25, 2008 at 4:46 pm
hi! sorry its not working for me. is it working for u? could you please explain the process.
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Nov 28, 2008 at 3:06 pm
This is working for me. But are your sure this is safe?
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May 5, 2009 at 2:45 am
Problem with Google SMS channel is , it send the sms only after a specific period of time . So we need to find a work around for this.
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Chetan Replied:
May 5, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Yeah…
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Dec 4, 2009 at 11:04 pm
great info
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Jan 12, 2010 at 11:55 am
sir i dint understand,pls help again with easy understanding way
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