A lot of people have asked about receiving posts as text messages on their cell phones. It looks like we've got that working now.
- If you have any current subscriptions, remove them. (User Control Panel -> Manage subscriptions -> Mark all -> Unwatch marked)
- Go to a Forum or Topic you want to subscribe to.
- At the very bottom of the page there is a blue banner with a link that says "Subscribe Topic" or "Subscribe Forum". Click on it.
You will now receive emails whenever somebody (other than yourself) posts to the Topic or Forum.
Now, how do we get these emails to our cell phone? There are two ways. (1) Set up an email filter to forward the emails, or (2) change your email address to your phone's email address.
Setting up an email filter
This is the prefered method as it allows you to still receive other UWA emails in your regular inbox and not on your phone. Unfortunately, not all email providers allow forwarding based on filters. But assuming your's does:
- Somewhere in your email, there is a place to create filters. Find that.
- Filter on "From = forum@utahwindriders.org" and "Subject = {Forum Name}" (i.e. "It's Blowing", "It's Gonna Blow", "Main Message Board", etc).
- Set the action to be "Forward email".
- Set the email address to be the email address of your phone (i.e. 8019999999@vtext.com, 8019999999@sprint.com, etc).
If the above options don't work for you, get a gmail account. It's free.
Changing your email address
If your email provider doesn't allow filter based forwarding, and for some reason you don't want to get a gmail account, you're only option is to change your email address on the board.
- Go to "User Control Panel -> Profile -> Edit account settings".
- Set the email address to be the email address of your phone (i.e. 8019999999@vtext.com, 8019999999@sprint.com, etc.)