[aprssig] APRS Email -> Cell phone Text message problem

[Greg D.]

Hi Pete,

Yeah, that's what I figured.  Email-2 was the service I used, because I appreciate how it can use aliases for email addresses.

I tried again using the original email service (no "-2"), because it formats things differently, with "Message from <call sign>" in the subject, and the message within the traditional message text area.  She got a message, but this time the phone rebooted itself and left an error, something about not being able to download the message.  I didn't try to pursue it at this time.  Perhaps it's simply out of space, or maybe the links and/or size is causing an internal crash.  The phone is a Motorola Razr, with T-Mobile service.

So, this is going to take some gateway work...

Any takers?

Greg  KO6TH


> From: hamlists at ametx.com
> To: aprssig at tapr.org
> Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 05:32:57 -0500
> Subject: Re: [aprssig] APRS Email -> Cell phone Text message problem
> 
> The message was in the subject line.  The service you are using apparently strips the subject line from the message on a text message.  EMAIL and EMAIL-2 are designed for email clients (and most SMS clients) that display the subject line in an email.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Pete Loveall AE5PL
> www.ae5pl.net
> 
> This electronic message transmission contains information from Peter Loveall AE5PL which may be confidential or privileged.  The contents of this message are intended solely for the use of the recipient or recipients named above.  If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that interception, disclosure, duplication, distribution or any other exploitation of this message is prohibited.
> 
> If you have received this electronic transmission in error, please immediately notify me by telephone at (972) 838-4107 or by email at pete at ae5pl.net
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Greg D.
> > Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2009 10:08 PM
> > 
> > The bad news:  The message text I sent was nowhere in the message.  All
> > she got was the header ("DO NOT REPLY"), and a bunch of links to the
> > Internet for findu and other such services.  I'm guessing that the
> > message text itself was truncated off the bottom of the message (only
> > the first 160 characters can be sent).
> > 
> > I used the email-2 gatway for this test.  Is there another service that
> > perhaps formats the message differently, so that the "important" part
> > can show up before all the links and such?  Or, is there a way for the
> > gateway to know that it's sending to a limited size receiver, and
> > adjust accordingly?  The links aren't useful when viewed from a phone's
> > text message window.
> 
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