GMail to Mobile won't work

[Thomas Milne]

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Andrew Malcolmson <andmalc-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> @Myles & James:  Thanks, email sending from Gmail to <my cell
> number>@pcs.rogers.com works for me.  For some reason triggering
> forwarding using a filter doesn't but that's for another day.
>
> @Thomas: I didn't have any issues with the confirmation code.  It was
> only 8 characters long.

Yeah but it comes _after_ the 140 character limit, so it's impossible
to retrieve. If you know of some other way to retrieve the code, there
are about ten thousand GMail users who would very much like to know
it.

Some people claim that there was some way to get it to show up in the
subject line, but even then you only get the first five numbers.

Seriously, check it out:

http://tinyurl.com/6jzga2y

> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 11:52 AM, James Knott <james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> Myles Braithwaite wrote:
>>>
>>> It may cost some extra money to do this.
>>
>> One thing I've noticed with Rogers is they send you a message advising that
>> the SMS is available.  Since that message also identifies the source, I
>> don't bother receiving the SMS message, so no charge.  I use this to be
>> notified of voice mail on my home phone.
>
> FYI:  you can ask Rogers tech to disable the notifications so you get
> the emails directly.   Most people won't want this unless you're sure
> your emails are short!
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