[maemo-users] Fwd: SMS on N800 used to work

[From: Jose Vargas]

I sent to my cell phone and the carrier is Tracfone.  I sent to two others
on AT&T and no issues, so it's the carrier.  Let's see.


On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Gary <gary at eyetraxx.net> wrote:

> Try sending a shorter message first, less than 25 characters. If you
> get the same error then  contact the recipient's carrier. This is not
> a fault of maemo or your mail client. SMS has a hard limit of 160
> characters, no exceptions.
>
>
> On 1/14/09, j <jose.r.vargas at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Gary,
> >
> > I created a shorter joseruns at gmail.com and like the previous
> > jose.r.vargas at gmail.com, worked for the first several messages, then
> > got the "Message from JRV is too long and has been shortened."
> >
> > Anyone else had this and fixed, let me know.
> >
> > Jose Vargas
> >
> > On 1/14/09, Gary <gary at eyetraxx.net> wrote:
> >> Jose Vargas wrote:
> >>> Now says "Message from (your account name) is too long and has been
> >>> shortened."  If you know the solution, let me know.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Your email, including headers that weren't stripped during the
> >> conversion to SMS, most likely exceeded the 160 character limit that's
> >> part of the SMS standard. q.v.
> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_message_service
> >>
> >> -Gary
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