demortes

Why not just send an email to the text messaging interface for your phone? Like I'm on verizon, I can do <phonenumber>@vtext.com See http://www.emailtextmessages.com/ to find your particular email address. Also sometimes, MMS can be done this way too.

Greetings, I'd like to add my expierence to this. My school has recently migrated all students to a Google Apps account, while staff is going through Office365 (Microsoft). To do this, they use an external authentication mechanism supported by Google. This ties into (or might just be) Active Directory. This then says they have accounts on Gmail or on Office365 and so on. The keyword above to note is EXTERNAL. What this means is Google doesn't know your password. They only receive an authentication token from the server that does the actual password hashing, etc. This means, in order for you to do what you want, you will need the authorizing party (your school) to allow Google to either 1. know your password, 2. set a seperate password to allow IMAP or POP3 access. Your helpdesk says they do not allow it, meaning that their policies do not allow this on the authentication side. Unfortunately, without your school changing its IT policies, this will not likely be supported in the near future. Hope this help, Demortes