Texting to RTM no longer works with new phone
(closed account) says:
I had an LG enV3 that I could always use to text tasks to my RTM email address. I could say "buy milk #@errands today" and the task "buy milk" would show up in my inbox with the tag @errands and a due date of "today". If I texted in a longer note, the first many words (never counted how many characters) would show up as the name of the task, and the whole text would be in the note.
Now I have an iPhone4, and I'm running the RTM app and love it, but sometimes I want to take something that someone texted TO me and get it into RTM. I copied the body of their text, sent it off to RTM, and it showed up in my Inbox as "unnamed task". Is there any way to go back to having the opening words of the text show up as the task name? I've read the older posts about texting in a task and NEVER had any problem prior to upgrading to the iPhone. (I am on Verizon, if that matters, but I've been on Verizon for 4 years, so that didn't change.)
Thanks,
Margaret
Now I have an iPhone4, and I'm running the RTM app and love it, but sometimes I want to take something that someone texted TO me and get it into RTM. I copied the body of their text, sent it off to RTM, and it showed up in my Inbox as "unnamed task". Is there any way to go back to having the opening words of the text show up as the task name? I've read the older posts about texting in a task and NEVER had any problem prior to upgrading to the iPhone. (I am on Verizon, if that matters, but I've been on Verizon for 4 years, so that didn't change.)
Thanks,
Margaret
Hi Margaret,
There are 2 kinds of email addresses used for adding tasks. The Inbox Email Address is used to add a single task. The task name is placed in the subject line of the email, and the details of the task are placed in the body. The Import Email Address, on the other hand, is used to import a list of tasks. The name of the list to import to is placed in the subject line, and each task is a line in the body of the message.
If you send an email to the Inbox Email Address with a blank subject line, you will receive an "unnamed task" because the task name is expected in the subject.
You can find more information about the 2 different email addresses here.
Hope that helps!
There are 2 kinds of email addresses used for adding tasks. The Inbox Email Address is used to add a single task. The task name is placed in the subject line of the email, and the details of the task are placed in the body. The Import Email Address, on the other hand, is used to import a list of tasks. The name of the list to import to is placed in the subject line, and each task is a line in the body of the message.
If you send an email to the Inbox Email Address with a blank subject line, you will receive an "unnamed task" because the task name is expected in the subject.
You can find more information about the 2 different email addresses here.
Hope that helps!
(closed account) says:
Thanks, Brendan. I've always used the "Inbox Email Address" to text in single tasks. I guess the iPhone 'converts' a text into an "email"?? It used to work just fine before I got the iPhone.
So I guess the new question is "How do I specify a "subject line" when the thing I'm using to initiate the "email" is a text message?"
So I guess the new question is "How do I specify a "subject line" when the thing I'm using to initiate the "email" is a text message?"
How the text message is sent via email may depend on your mobile carrier. For Verizon, the SMS-to-email VText service is used.
If you're unable to control the details of how this email is sent (for example, what gets placed in the subject line), you may need to copy the text of the message and paste it into the iPhone app to add a task.
Alternatively, you could copy the text and paste it into a message manually in your email client to have more control over the process.
Hope that helps!
If you're unable to control the details of how this email is sent (for example, what gets placed in the subject line), you may need to copy the text of the message and paste it into the iPhone app to add a task.
Alternatively, you could copy the text and paste it into a message manually in your email client to have more control over the process.
Hope that helps!
(closed account) says:
Thanks.