GMail to Mobile won't work

Thomas Milne tbrucemilne-TcoXwbchSccMMYnvST3LeUB+6BGkLq7r at public.gmane.org
Fri Feb 11 16:47:47 UTC 2011


On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Thomas Milne
<tbrucemilne-TcoXwbchSccMMYnvST3LeUB+6BGkLq7r at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Andrew Malcolmson <andmalc-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> @Thomas
>>
>> I have a Google Apps domain (I suppose that's what you have) so I
>> tried forwarding with it.  Now I see what you're talking about.
>>
>> Looks like they fixed the issue for regular accounts back in July but
>> still haven't for user domains.   I wonder how they could have let a
>> bug that would be so trivial to fix go on so long.   For what it's
>> worth, I filled a support request.
>
> Thanks but so have a thousand other people at this point. It looks
> like Google's sol'n was to move the confirmation code to the subject
> line, but for some reason they still put it after a bunch of text, so
> someone in between GMail and the SMS gateway is truncating the subject
> line as well. I've seen posts on this subject that it is something to
> do with Bell Canada (that I would not doubt it in the least, they
> really are fully equipped idiots).
>
> So even if they 'fix' the issue for custom domains, it won't help me
> unless they move the confirmation code to the beginning of the
> text/subject.
>

Reminds me of a lesson I learned a long time ago, not just in
technical matters, and one that GMail clearly needs to learn:

If you apply half a solution, you will likely get twice the problems.

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