I asked on Gmail forums 3 times but it seems my questions were removed, because in each instance they disappeared and got replaced by this notice highlighted in red: "part of your question has been removed".

 

Except the question's completely gone without an explanation or notice sent to me.

 

The question...

 

"Can you get SMS email alerts from only specific people, so you don't get alerts from any other emails?"

 

Maybe someone here can answer it for me.

 

Any of you with Gmail care to try posting the same question on its forums? When you enter Gmail, click on "help" at left ---> forum. I'd like to know if the same happens to your question.

 

I'd also like know if you can get the alerts without the email's contents, just a notification that an email's awaiting you from a person, but not the whole email's contents or images/attachments. I'm unfamiliar with the entire process and SMS texts in general.

I Googled: SMS GMAIL ALERTS FILTERS. Here's two results:

 

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-setup-free-sms-alerts-for-urgent-emails-in-gmail/

 

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2412700/gmail_sms_alerts_free.html

 

I'm on gmail and am notified to my phone but I get it via internet with it being a Blackberry Curve. I might have a play with the filters and sms side of it later. Post back if you suss it.