Thomas Nichols's dashboard

I was looking around for the email to text option. o2 don't have the most organized of sites. I found it by logging into their webmail. Looks like they charge for each sms sent! Makes it unusable to be notified of emails.

@conrad. It's possible to receive MMS messages. o2 of a webpage which you visit on the iPhone. You have to activate the service which doesnt take long. I think I read somewhere that o2 are working on an email to mms service - not sure on that.

I have an iPhone so MMS isn't possible, I tried going with the alternative... went to www.o2.co.uk to switch on email-to-text as suggested. I couldn't find anywhere to switch that on. So I just rang O2's iPhone Customer Service... the woman there had never heard of "email-to-text." She spent 5 minutes asking her advisors -- with me on hold -- and came back to tell me that it couldn't be done. "We don't offer that service." *sigh*

I've also tried the +44 and O2 UK thing. Still nothing.

@ Thomas Nichols, no you don't need to be signed up to O2 Broadband - you just need to have an O2 mobile and, I think, sign up to My O2 (this might not be strictly necessary but it doesn't hurt). As per Marshall's post right at the top, you then sms 'ON' to 212, and you should get a confirmation message from O2 that Mmail's been switched on. Once received, check that your mobile number is entered correctly into your settings at iwantsandy (+44, miss out the initial 0 then key in the rest of your number with no spaces), and request the confirmation message from Sandy again. When I followed these steps, I got the code from Sandy quite quickly and it all works perfectly now. Twitter does work too, but I actually use both - it's nice to have the option! ;-)

It seems the O2 email-to-SMS service is now only available if you subscribe to O2 broadband - can anyone else confirm this? I'll try out the twitter link to see if that works instead

Hi Rael,
Firefox 3.0 (2008052906) on WinXP. I got a warning about '*.iwantsandy.com' -- I created an Exception, but can no longer find where they're stored so can't delete it to retest :-( From memory, cert expires on 20 June so that's not the issue - the error was IIRC that the cert was for a different site.
Also, slthough most images are over SSL you have one http image - http://s7.addthis.com/button1-bm.gif - so the page shows as "partially encrypted". This is all on https://iwantsandy.com/settings

Apart from minor issues like this the site is *so* good - thanks very much :-) – Thomas Nichols, on June 11, 2008 08:16

Hi Thomas! What warnings are you running into and under which browser and operating system? – Rael Dornfest, on June 11, 2008 05:24

Extra server load seems an acceptable price for such an application -- but they'll need to get the warnings on their SSL certs sorted out first ;-)