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.<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Gary <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gary@eyetraxx.net" target="_blank">gary@eyetraxx.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Try sending a shorter message first, less than 25 characters. If you<br>
get the same error then contact the recipient's carrier. This is not<br>
a fault of maemo or your mail client. SMS has a hard limit of 160<br>
characters, no exceptions.<br>
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On 1/14/09, j <<a href="mailto:jose.r.vargas@gmail.com" target="_blank">jose.r.vargas@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Gary,<br>
><br>
> I created a shorter <a href="mailto:joseruns@gmail.com" target="_blank">joseruns@gmail.com</a> and like the previous<br>
> <a href="mailto:jose.r.vargas@gmail.com" target="_blank">jose.r.vargas@gmail.com</a>, worked for the first several messages, then<br>
> got the "Message from JRV is too long and has been shortened."<br>
><br>
> Anyone else had this and fixed, let me know.<br>
><br>
> Jose Vargas<br>
><br>
> On 1/14/09, Gary <<a href="mailto:gary@eyetraxx.net" target="_blank">gary@eyetraxx.net</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Jose Vargas wrote:<br>
>>> Now says "Message from (your account name) is too long and has been<br>
>>> shortened." If you know the solution, let me know.<br>
>>><br>
>><br>
>> Your email, including headers that weren't stripped during the<br>
>> conversion to SMS, most likely exceeded the 160 character limit that's<br>
>> part of the SMS standard. q.v.<br>
>> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_message_service" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_message_service</a><br>
>><br>
>> -Gary<br>
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