Outlook calendar sends meeting reminder to pager/cell phone

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Brock Stringer - 18 Mar 2005 01:09 GMT

Outlook should enable you to have the calendar reminder sent to a mobile
device. Ideally you could check a box in the calendar item. However, it
would also work if you could create a rule that would trigger x minutes
before a meeting and send a notice (smtp, sms,....) to a mobile device. Not
everyone has a PDA that is synced with Outlook.

To some degree the basic issue is that you can not create a rule that has to
do with calendar items. This does not seem to make sense. Almost all the
rules deal with messages being sent or received. Why can't I create a rule
that has to do with the calendar?

Thanks,

Brock

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] - 18 Mar 2005 01:44 GMT

http://www.slipstick.com/addins/pager.htm for pager/sms solutions.

Rules act on messages only since that is the one area over which you have no
control EXCEPT for rules. Rules move/delete/forward etc. messages. What
kind of rule would you want to create for calendar items that you cannot
implement yourself when they are created by you??

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After furious head scratching, Brock Stringer asked:

| Outlook should enable you to have the calendar reminder sent to a
| mobile device. Ideally you could check a box in the calendar item.
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| Brock

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Matthew Choinski - 18 Mar 2005 18:23 GMT

Brock, I have created a service, called messagingreminder.com, that sends
your reminders to your mobile phone automatically -- even if you're computer
is off!

You don't have to pay anything to download the software and you can try it
out for a month free. Actually, I'm currently developing a new version of
the software and an updated version of my web site. (It's a little too
simple right now so I'm going to add more information about my service and I
want change the design of the web site as well to make it larger.)

I'm the sole person behind the start-up, so if you have any questions or
comments, please feel free to e-mail me. Thanks, Matt.

http://www.messagingreminder.com/

> Outlook should enable you to have the calendar reminder sent to a mobile
> device. Ideally you could check a box in the calendar item. However, it
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> Brock

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