Want ERAS emails sent directly to your phone?

[RxBoy]

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Want a ERAS email notification sent directly to your phone as a text message as soon as its sent? I came up with this neat little trick last month... Just do this:

1) Get a gmail account (https://mail.google.com). Set eras email to that gmail account.

2) Login to Gmail. Top right on Gmail page, hit settings then filter->Create new filter.

3) In the "from:" box, type "myer[email protected]g". Hit Next.

4) Check the "foward:" box type your 10 digit phone number@yourprovider.

T-Mobile: phonenumber@tmomail.net
Virgin Mobile: phonenumber@vmobl.com
AT&T: phonenumber@txt.att.net
Sprint: phonenumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com
Verizon: phonenumber@vtext.com
Nextel: phonenumber@messaging.nextel.com


Example: [email protected]

You might also want to check "Never Send it to Spam"

5) Hit "create filter"


It basically sends an exert of the ERAS email as a SMS text message to your phone. Once you get it, fire up gmail on your computer and read. Now you can unglue yourself from your inbox...

 

[RxBoy]

Ohh yeah and if you want those ERAS emails still sent to your original email:

Gmail homepage->Settings-> Forwarding and POP/IMAP

Bullet "Forward a copy of incoming mail to" and input your old email, and set it to "Keep Gmail copy in inbox"

Hit Save Changes

Done.

 

[2oRadio]

Doesn't work well for me, messages are cut off when texted to me.

 

[ZoidbergMD]

Awesome, I tried it from my non-gmail account and it worked. Who cares if it's cut off, I just want to know when to check my email instead of doing it randomly every 5 min.

Thanks!

 

[lfesiam]

Awesome, I tried it from my non-gmail account and it worked. Who cares if it's cut off, I just want to know when to check my email instead of doing it randomly every 5 min.

Thanks!

now....if an application for an iphone could be made for anesthesiology residency......something like instant texting network for residents/crnas/attendings.....in-house status.......pulling up any patients monitoring currently in the OR/PACU/pre-op.....portable ultrasound hook-up for regionals....automatic case assignments and case number log......heck even do the pre-op on the iphone.....so much potential for the little wifi machine....

any tech savvvvyyyy anesthesiologists out there?

 

[UTKB]

On my Instinct I can set up gmail and school email so there is a little blue star flashing on my phone when there is a new email. It is so nice to be able to walk away from the computer. However I now have developed an intimate relationship with my phone. From one obsession to another.

 

[Uegis]

Anyone know what happens if you change email on your ERAS? I am paranoid that if I change my email from my school email, which is a pain to check, to Gmail, I would lose messages or would wind up having to check both mailbox anyway. I cannot POP from my school email either.

 

[G0S2]

Anyone know what happens if you change email on your ERAS? I am paranoid that if I change my email from my school email, which is a pain to check, to Gmail, I would lose messages or would wind up having to check both mailbox anyway. I cannot POP from my school email either.

You can forward your school email to gmail. That's what I do. Oh, but you can't POP, I just read that part.

 

[DO4lifer]

i use gmail already to receive ERAS emails, its just a freebie step for me!

thanks for the tip!