GMail to Mobile won't work

[Thomas Milne]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Thomas Milne
<tbrucemilne-TcoXwbchSccMMYnvST3LeUB+6BGkLq7r at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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.

And if I try it from a regular GMail account, this is what comes through:

mail-noreply-hpIqsD4AKlfQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org [Gmail Forwarding Confirmation (#31179...]


>>> 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.

LOL! Yeah, obviously...even though it's _exactly_ the same. There are
other pages with similar complaints that go right up to the present,
including what I describe above.

What you need to understand is that although it did not happen to
_you_, it can still happen to other people, and it doesn't mean
they're retarded if it does.

-- 
TBM
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists