Now I'm confused

[rwolson]

Today, on the way home from work I received a text message from a coworker. I don't recall if I gave him my private phone number. I listened to message while driving via MFT. Oh great, need to spend time reading some Oracle logs! I arrive at home realizing it's not a text message, but an email from a Microsoft Exchange server.

 

When did we start receiving email notifications on MFT? I know I receive several work emails while driving and the system never notified me.

 

 

I'm running IOS 7. whatever the latest; I'm to lazy to look. No big deal to me, but wondering why?

 

 

[bce]

I think It's all notifications. I noticed this on my iPhone a couple of days ago. RadarCast was telling me that it was going to rain at my house.

 

I haven't changed anything lately so I have no idea why is started happening.

[akirby]

MFT only takes what the phone decides to send. It's your notification settings on the iPhone. Mine has changed with the last few iOS updates.

[TheWizard]

You can receive emails as text messages with most providers by addressing the email to your phone number at the provider's domain. For example, AT&T has 1234567890@txt.att.net. Other providers have similar setups. Email sent to that address will be treated as a text message by your phone. It's invaluable for use with systems that can email but not text directly. I have used that option for many years to get automated alerts from network monitoring systems and even to "page" me when somebody leaves a voicemail on my office phone.