TIP: An Easy MMS/MySpace/etc. Workaround

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smmay2

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As some of you well know, Cricket has limited offerings for things like mobile alerts and provider-agnostic MMS services.

For example, whenever there is activity on my MySpace account, I want to get an alert on my Cricket phone. The problem is that MySpace doesn't offer mobile services to Cricket yet.

But I have found an easy workaround for this:

First, I set-up a new Google Mail (Gmail) account that I use solely as an alias for my Cricket phone. For it, I set-up the alias: [email protected]

I then go to the Gmail settings and choose the "filters" tab. To get emails from MySpace, I simply put MySpace as the criteria for the filter and then choose "Next Step".

I then set-up the action. I choose "Forward it to", and then enter my mobile MMS address, which is [email protected]

I then activate the filter, and, voil
 
Like I said--some things like MMS between carriers you just can't send directly to a Cricket phone. I had to use this method to send pics from my Cincinnati Bell phone to my Cricket phone. I could not send them directly for some reason.

Maybe you didn't understand from my post.
 
thanks for that tip! for some reason lately i have not been receiving my myspace alerts?...(i have cingular?) so i just jumped over to my gmail account, changed my email addy in myspace, and it works perfectly!

anyone else not recieving cingular alerts even though you have set it up in myspace?
 
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