Re: My cellphone's SMS software

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From: David Champion
Subject: Re: My cellphone's SMS software
Date: 16:59 on 25 Feb 2004
* On 2004.02.25, in <20040225001619.W26048@xxxxx.xxxxxxx.xxx>,
*	"Ann Barcomb" <ann@xxxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> 
> Specifically, any message which contains an unclosed right paran
> will fail to send.  So 'hey there :)' gives the unhelpful error
> 'Message failed in sending'.
> 
> Not only does the error message suck,  the only explanations I
> can come up with for why it might fail are, frankly, rather
> scary.

My Nokia does direct SMS and regular mail via a gateway. Trouble is, it
has no real sense of what mail should look like. I haven't prodded all
its angles, so I'm not confident of details, but it appears at first
glance that the first matching parenthetical pair in your SMS message to
the SMTP gateway encloses the message's subject. The rest is body.

An unmatched parenthesis, in the absence of another matching pair, might
confuse the poor handler software into dropping it as a malformed mail
message.

Cell phone software is truly abominable. It's worse than elevator
software, and that's pretty harsh criticism. I'll save that bottle of
bile for another day, but feel free to leap upon the opening. I know you
hate elevators.

-- 
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 dgc@xxxxxxxx.xxx   No one could steer me right but Mama tried, Mama tried,
 NSIT               Mama tried to raise me better, but her pleading I denied.
 Univ. of Chicago   That leaves only me to blame 'cause Mama tried.   -- Merle

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