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6:12 pm
Seems the rogers email to SMS gateway is working for speakout now. I tried it months back but it was not enabled.
Try
Phone#@pcs.rogers.com
Have fun.
8:06 pm
I just tried it too, and about minute after sending the e-mail, I got the following message on my phone:
Welcome to Rogers Email to SMS. You have mail but are not subscribed; reply 'Yes' to this message to subscribe.
I haven't replied yet to Subscribe... Any potential negative consequences??
Secondly, I'm wondering if this will integrate with the existing ability with Speakout to send an e-mail from your phone (i.e. send text msg to 0000000000 with e-mail address at start of the message). Will someone getting the e-mail be able to reply via the pcs.rogers.com route, with your cell number automatically filled in?
8:25 pm
yes I got that message first also. I responded yes.
Only negative is if some spammer gets your phone's email. Does not seem very plausible.
10:04 pm
I tried it twice but couldn't get it to work.
I used my 10 digit phone number followed by "@pcs.rogers.com".
Any one else have problems or successes?
11:01 am
Okay, I decided to 'Reply Yes to subscribe', but the original message came from "30500001", so when I tried to reply to that number, it didn't go through. ("Number not in use" error).
I tried sending a couple more e-mails to my phone, as I did yesterday, using the number@pcs.rogers.com address, but got no notices or alerts on my phone... nothing.
Then, I found this page on the Rogers site:
http://your.rogers.com/busines.....mmands.asp
This page describes a bunch of commands for their 'email to text' service. It talks about managing the service by sending text messages to 0000000000, including ways of subscribing and unsubscribing. So, I tried sending 'subscribe' to 0000000000. That message got sent, but has not caused any change in receiving email on my phone. This didn't 'release' the email I sent yesterday. Hmmmm...
5:46 pm
Tried it again, worked ok.
After about 20 seconds I got a 'you have mail from xxxx' reply with 'read' to read message.
Once I did that, I got my original message.
This is great, I can now get my server to sms me when a message gets left on my answering machine software. Finally!
8:05 am
I tried again, this time from the Rogers website:
http://websms.rogers.page.ca/s.....s/english/
and it still didn't work for me. I wonder if it works for some numbers and not others?
Walter_Wpg and Glen Lalonde, were your phone numbers ported into SpeakOut? Or were they newly assigned numbers? My number was assigned to me by SpeakOut.
11:57 am
My phone number was a "native" Speakout phone number, not ported.
Well, after that first small success getting that intro message from the Rogers PCS system, now I am getting nothing. I could not 'subscribe', and now, nothing happens when I try to email to my phone.
I decided to go to the new official Speakout web site, and found an e-mail address for customer service. I sent them a question, explaining that I could send an e-mail through the Rogers port using the 0000000000 trick, but that I could not receive replies. I got an answer just a few hours later:
Walter this is something that we believe can be done utilizing Roger's phones with Roger's service but SpeakOut operates somewhat differently, so I have forwarded your inquiry to a technical advisor to see if it in fact it is possible with SpeakOut.
This morning, I received this response:
SpeakOut Canada does not support this feature. and your ability to be able to use it in a limited fashion is simply legacy software from our provider Roger's Wireless that will likely in the future be switched off. Therefore I cannot provide you any additional information on how to use these features.
So, maybe they will eventually switch off this "legacy software", but if they were nice guys who cared about providing good features to customers, maybe they would properly configure and activate it so that Speakout phones could reliably send and receive emails. We can only hope! 🙂
5:31 pm
Generic SMS bridge is working. My teleflip account started sending me (sms)mail also a few days ago. It has not worked since I switched to speakout some time ago...
3:51 am
but if they were nice guys who cared about providing good features to customers, maybe they would properly configure and activate it so that Speakout phones could reliably send and receive emails.
Don't bet on it.
Excuse me, Mr. Rogers sir... I'd like to buy blocks of airtime from you at a discount, then use your towers, your network, and your software to let my cell service do the same as yours at a lower price, so I can steal all your customers. Would that be okay?
5:25 pm
Well, after striking out a few weeks ago with e-mail-to-SMS on my phone, I decided to try again today --- you never know if something changed...
I sent an e-mail to (my.number)@pcs.rogers.com, and about 20 seconds later, a text message arrives at my phone. It's not the e-mail, but a message saying I have received an e-mail, which I can read by replying to that message with the text "read". I did that reply, and a few seconds later, I was reading the e-mail. What's more, I was not charged for any of this. I purposely checked my balance at the beginning of the test, and there were no deductions for any of the messages (maybe because my text messages were to and from an internal Speakout/Rogers number, rather than "the outside world"?). Psst... don't tell Speakout this was free --- they may not know about this loophole! 🙂
12:44 pm
enjoy it while it lasts. hard to imagine it will.
sigh. this is really the only feature i want. i don't even need voice.
5:03 pm
Emailing to phone does not work for me. I don't receive anything. I've tried sending commands to 0000000000 but nothing seems to work except for sending a text out to an email address.
I suspect that for those whom the SMS gateway is working have a number that was associated with a Roger's account at some point.
5:17 pm
same problem.. i can email myself but when i email the phone i get nothing
8:27 pm
it doesn't work anymore - alas. not even from the rogers send a SMS via the internet page (http://websms.rogers.page.ca/s.....s/english/) -- it would have been really nice if it still worked. i don't see why they shouldn't support it. As SpeakOut subscribers, we still get charged when we get a msg this way...
2:19 am
check my other post on how to send NOTIFICATIONS to yourself using GOOGLE CALENDAR.
Surprisingly, still works! Your calendar will send you reminders of meetings or whatever.
pz
12:18 pm
I just created an account at the rogers sms site ( http://websms.rogers.page.ca/2way/ ), and sent two sms msgs to my native speakout phone number. both arrived.
Reply did not work.
e-mailing @pcs.rogers.ca did not work either. But... given that the incoming messages are now free. I won't complain too much about needing to use the rogers site.:smile:
8:28 am
April 23, 2009
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it's too bad that emailing your.number @pcs.rogers.ca stopped working. the sign up page at rogers is a viable workaround but way too awkward for real life use... i'm not going to ask any friends / family to bother with that. They just want to email my phone.number from their email, outlook, gmail, whatever. There's got to be a better way!?
10:08 pm
November 26, 2009
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For interest sake I emailed a test text message to myself. Since I just bought the credits to get a free phone a few days ago. I get a message from 3500001 about subscribing to email to sms service. I try to respond but says can't send the message. I was using the pcs.rogers.com (not that .ca would matter?) to send.
Haven't sent any text messages via phone yet. Telus and mts seem to recieve the email to text w/o issues.
