Notify 2 or more email addresses

Posts: 241 · Vonage Forum Master Joined: Mar 17, 2006 Posts: 241

I'd like to have the option to send a notification to two email addresses upon receipt of a Vonage voicemail. My wife and I both spend a lot of time on the computer, and email is the best way for use to get a notification. It's difficult to find a way to forward an email from one address to two, so having Vonage send to both addresses directly would be the best approach.

Posts: 135 · Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 2:50 pm Post subject:

I wanted the same capability. I ended up getting it using an email forwarder to get it.

I have my own domain name and webspace where I can create email accounts, etc. I created an email address (something line vonage_voicemail@xxx) that is only a forwarder. This is the email address that I enter into the Email Notification field of the Vonage website.

The forwarder can then be configured to forward a copy of anything that it receives to any number of email addresses. These email addresses can be ont he same domain or on any other domain.

It would be nice if Vonage allowed you to enter more than one address for Email notification... but this is a good workaround for anyone that has their own domain and email server.

Posts: 241 · Vonage Forum Master Joined: Mar 17, 2006 Posts: 241

We used to have a domain for a side business but let it go. The hosting & email was through Yahoo, so I think it was no more capable that our current Yahoo accounts.

I know I can use Yahoo Groups to forward, but I'd have to pass through another account first to set that up (yahoo groups requires some interaction with the sending address to establish the connectivity). So while I could do Vonage-->gmail-->Yahoo Groups--> 2 addresses I'd rather not. I've also had trouble with very slow delivery on some of the Yahoo groups I've been running.

Posts: 135 · Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 3:08 pm Post subject:

yeah... to do what I am doing you really need your own domain that you have control of to create email accounts and forwarders. I can't image that Yahoo lets you do something like that.

I decided a while ago that I wanted my own domain anyway... just so I did not have to change my personal email address every time my ISP changed. In the past I have had at least 4 different email addresses that I can not longer use anymore (different dial-up ISPs) and then about 3 years ago Cox made me change my email address for cable modem when they stopped using Road Runner for the high speed network. No more! I am now in control. Smile

It is not really expensive to get a domain name and an account with a budget web hosting company anymore. My domain name costs about $8 a year. My hosting used to be $10 a year (for a really cut rate, zero support hosting plan). I have since upgraded because I needed the web space. The host that I use now (HostPC) has a starting plan for $35 a year and you get 1GB of disc space and up to 50 email accounts.

Posts: 182 · Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 9:20 pm Post subject:

I got my own domain name and set up my own mail server (for other reasons, mind), and created an alias, voicemail@blahblah to forward to the two email accounts we normally use. It works great. It might sound overkill to have your own mail server, but you can get a much easier-to-remember email address and you can set up such a server for nearly no cost. My first mail server was on an old 486 machine I was going to throw out. I set it up with Linux.

I realize not all people are going to want to do such a thing but it is easy and it is possible.

Posts: 13 · Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 9:59 pm Post subject:

I have Road Runner for a ISP. I setup an additional email address through their management interface, then went into their webmail interface and setup multiple forward email addresses. This forwards all incoming emails to multiple accounts, and it doesn't retain anything in the inbox so the mailbox that is used for voice mail is always empty, and there's no need to keep a client running since it's all done on RoadRunner's servers.

Posts: 12 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Sep 24, 2005 Posts: 12

Using Thunderbird (and presumably most other e-mail programs) you can set up a message filter (or rule) that will forward mail based on the sender's address, subject line or whatever else you want to use. Presumably, the easiest way to do what you want would be to set up a filter to forward all mail from 1xxxxxxxxxx@vm.vonage.com to wherever you want.

Good luck.

Posts: 2 · New Forum Member Joined: Apr 15, 2006 Posts: 2

pdhenry wrote:

So while I could do Vonage-->gmail-->Yahoo Groups--> 2 addresses I'd rather not.

Actually, you can forward to mulitple addresses from Gmail. Just set up a filter for each address you want to forward to.

Posts: 241 · Vonage Forum Master Joined: Mar 17, 2006 Posts: 241

Thanks, Scott! Applause

I have a buddy with a web presence who had set me up with a forwarding email account, but using Gmail would give me a bit more direct control. I'll play with Gmail filters a bit.

EDIT: Works like a champ!

Posts: 6 · New Forum Member Joined: Mar 13, 2006 Posts: 6

How did you set the group email for Gmail to do this?