GMail to Mobile won't work

[Thomas Milne]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Andrew Malcolmson <andmalc-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Thomas Milne
> <tbrucemilne-TcoXwbchSccMMYnvST3LeUB+6BGkLq7r at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> The confirmation text I copied from my phone (HTC Dream) starts as
> follows:  "Gmail Team (Gmail Forwarding Confirmation (#54074357) -
> Rec)".  The confirmation code starts at 45 characters from the
> beginning.

That's completely different from the text I get. I use a custom domain
with GMail, so I've put 'domain.org' in place of the real one.

mail-noreply-rwNdu3Xx/YEdnm+yROfE0A at public.gmane.org [Domain.org Forwarding Confirmati...]
tbrucemilne-rwNdu3Xx/YEdnm+yROfE0A at public.gmane.org has requested to automatically f

> Do you have a Samsung Corby Pro?  These phones have an issue of
> misformatting SMS so messages take up more characters than they should
> until a text format setting somewhere is changed from Unicode to GSM
> Alpha.

No, it's very simple. The text I get is exactly 140 characters, and it
does not contain the confirmation code.

>> 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
>
> These search results stop after July of 2010.  Apparently Google fixed
> the problem, so whatever is happening for you is something different.
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