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Ben Pilbrow
Asked: 2010-11-21 18:02:57 +0800 CST

Smartphone app to sound an alarm when a specific email is received

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This may be borderline Server Fault, so I'm cool if it's decided this question is migrated elsewhere.

As a sysadmin, I am responsible for responding to any monitoring alerts which occur out of hours. I have a company issue BlackBerry, so if a monitoring alert is sent, I can be notified. This is great .. provided I'm not in another room or asleep. Yes, it makes a noise when an email is received, but if I miss that little noise that lasts about 2 seconds, I've missed the alert.

What I'm looking for is an app (paid for isn't a problem) which can sound an alarm when an email is received that matches certain criteria that does not stop until I dismiss it.

Criteria would be any of the following (bonus points if I can mix and match criteria)

  • Sender address
  • Message subject
  • Recipients

This is primarily for a BlackBerry, but apps for other smartphones might be beneficial to the greater community.

monitoring smartphone alerts

5 Answers

  1. I'm not sure about Blackberry, but on Android you can use "Wake Me Up! Smart Alarm" and Tasker. This is the easiest solution I found and it requires no coding.

    First, open the Wake Me Up! app and create a Tasker Alarm:
    1) New alarm > Trigger:Tasker > Save

    Next, we'll make the event:
    1) Go to Tasker and create an event triggered by a notification (Event>UI>Notification).
    2) For the Owner Application select your email app (in my case it was Gmail)
    3) For the Title enter whatever the title of the notification is (in my case it was TradingView).

    Lastly, we'll make the task:
    1) Name your Task "Alarm" or whatever.
    2) Hit the plus sign to add an action.
    3) Select Plugin > Wake me up! > Trigger an alarm > Configure > Select the Tasker alarm you created in the first step.

    All done. You should now have an alarm that's triggered by an email notification.

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  2. where is my droid

    its for the android and can turn on the volume to full on a keyword sent over sms. Most carriers provide a [email protected] email which will sms your phone. You can have your alert be nagios.

    Website: http://sites.google.com/site/alienmanfc6/wheresmyandroid

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  3. As most people have stated, there are not many options for blackberry, but I recommend having the email send several times, and there should be a option in settings to make the alert longer and louder as I rememberer as I now have a Droid.

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  4. Try using IFTTT to parse your email look for keywords in subject our from address. as far an action goes it can call your phone or set an IF notification

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  5. The problem here is email - it really isn't meant for that and it does it very poorly. There are services such as PagerDuty that you can send your alerts to instead and you can have them actually phone you (it will keep trying acc. to how you specify) and you can acknowledge from the phones keypad. Email is the 90's way ... SMS is also terrible for alerts.

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