Today I was speaking with a colleague who wanted a way to
get the Tri-Rail alerts on his cell phone. Tri-Rail has an alerting
service that sends emails to your email account. Here is the link to
the VIP Alerting service http://www.tri-rail.com/vip/vip_form.asp
To get the alerts on my cell phone I configured my Gmail account to forward emails as text messages to my phone. Gmail includes a feature called filters. Filters are normally used to classify email into folders/labels. In this situation I used the filter to look for emails from the alerting system and then look for the trains that I normally ride.
I setup two filters, one for all VIP alerts and one for VIP Alerts for the trains I am interested in learning about.To get the alerts on my cell phone I configured my Gmail account to forward emails as text messages to my phone. Gmail includes a feature called filters. Filters are normally used to classify email into folders/labels. In this situation I used the filter to look for emails from the alerting system and then look for the trains that I normally ride.
Filter #1 - needs to be created first so that this filter executes first. This filter forwards the email to yourphonenumber@txt.att.net. This filter also put this email into the folder "VIP Alerts/My Train Alerts"
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