Receive Free SMS Alerts Whenever a new Mail Popped Up in Gmail via way2sms

All of you have heared the name of WAY2SMS ,Do you know that you can get SMS alerts when you receive a new email in your Gmail inbox? Yes, this can be done using way2sms.com Way2SMS.com. This facility which is provided by way2sms is extremely useful for people who don’t have a smartphone or when no internet connection is available.

  

How to Configure Gmail SMS Alerts?

•     Login to your Way2SMS account (or) Sign Up if you don’t have one.
•     Go to “Mail Alerts” tab and copy the mail forwarding address

•  Now, login to your Gmail account and select “Settings”.
  Select the “Forwarding and POP/IMAP” tab and choose “Forward a copy of incoming mail to” option and enter the forwarding address that you’ve copied in the 2nd step.

•      Ensure you select the “Keep Gmail’s copy in the inbox” option.
•     Confirm with the verification code that you’ll receive on your mobile in Gmail verification box.

That’s it! You’ll now receive mobile SMS alerts for every incoming mail that your Gmail ID gets.

NOTE: You can try this procedure with any Email service provider that allows mail forwarding service.

How to Undo a Sent Email in Gmail

Gmail is one of the biggest email service provider of Google. It gives you a vast memory of storage of above 7.49 GB during the time of writing this post. In mobiles we communicate via SMS for free of cost like wise in internet we send emails to communicate to others for free of cost. Basically every internet user owns his private email id. It’s natural that every human makes a mistake. But sending an email with mistakes might cause a problem anytime.

So, Gmail has a feature of undoing a sent email. By oversight or unintentionally if you send an email you can undo it in Gmail and the email will be saved in drafts and can be corrected and resend it again or you can trash that email. Undo is sudden option which can only be used when you accidentally send an email to others by mistake.


Steps to Undo a Sent Email in Gmail

1. Log in to your Gmail account. Now click on settings icon which you can find in left top bar. If not go to mail settings in old user interface and then you can find settings in that menu.

2. Now in settings menu you can see the ‘Labs’ option click on it. Now you will find a normal search bar where you can type anything you want in that search bar.

3. Now make a simple search for “Undo Send” extension in labs. You will find a cool Gmail Beta Plugin which helps in you in undoing a sent email by mistake in Gmail, now as soon as you Enable it and click on Save your Mail settings. Refresh your page otherwise Gmail will automatically load again so that plugin could start working in your account.

4. Now just refresh the page of Gmail to see that Gmail Beta plugin in action.

5. Now you can try once by sending an email to anyone. Go to compose email or just click on any email and select the reply option in that email. Fill the spaces you want to send email and then click on Send, now you will see email sent and you will find a small Undo Option besides it to get that email back, click that and you email will be backed up in Drafts for future use. You can edit that email and resend it or you can trash that email if you don’t want it for further use.

This feature has been introduced in Gmail since long time but yet many are still unaware of this. Don’t forget to reload the page or refresh your Gmail account once after enabling this. So, now you are not lagging behind with any new Gmail features. Now there is no word of mistake in your Gmail history.

How to Send mails from command line

Often times, we want to send log files or other emails from command line or want to script them. In this tutorial, I will show you how to do that using two mail clients mail and mutt.

Sending mails using mail:

mail (mailx is the newer version) is a fantastic program that can be used for sending email from command line or from within scripts.


The following example will send an email to admin@example.com, with subject “Apache is down” and text “Please check Apache at host name of the server”

echo “Please check Apache at `hostname`” | mail -s “Apache is down” admin@example.com



We can cat the contents of any text file, for example, log file and it will be sent to the recipient specified

cat “/var/log/apache2/error.log” | mail -s “Apache is down” admin@example.com

To attach a file, other than a text one, we need to uuencode (unix to unix encode) it before sending

uuencode banner.jpg banner_out.jpg | mail webmaster@example.com

The banner.jpg is the name of input file and banner_out.jpg is the output uuencoded file that we will be sent by mail.

To have text sent alogwith the attachment, we can cat or echo that text too

(cat /var/log/apache2/error.log;uuencode banner.jpg banner.jpg) | mail -s pic webmaster@example.com



Sending mails from using mutt:

With mutt, its same as using mail.

echo “Please check Apache at `hostname`” | mutt -s “Apache is down” admin@example.com

or we can cat the contents of a text file to show as body text

cat /var/log/apache2/error.log | mutt -s “Apache is down” admin@example.com

OR

mutt -s “Apache is down” admin@example.com

To send an empty body mail, use an empty line as the mail body:

echo | mutt -s “Software upgrades for `hostname`” admin@example.com

To attach a binary file, its even easier with mutt, just use the -a option

echo | mutt -s “New logo for the company” -a logo.gif webmaster@example.com

Hope you this creation added to your knowledge.