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Ya this is getting weirder and weirder.... After all this time I don't understand what would be so hard about adding another email field in your profile.... i dunno. I gave up trying to figure this out months ago...sometimes what should make your life simpler and easier just gets too complicated and time-consuming to be worth it.

It's not just Gmail, kevin1. My personal e-mail account includes a forwarding option that changes the From address to whatever you have set as you "default" address...which is one of the addresses I've connected to Sandy. But she's not accepting those forwards either...so there's something else in the headers or something that's tipping her off. – Shazzer, on September 03, 2008 11:27

I got the same errors. Gmail forwarding to Sandy doesn't work. It seems that it might have worked at one point, but it doesn't now.

The "email relay" idea has two purposes. 1) send email to the relay from multiple accounts and then have the relay forward the emails to Sandy. And 2) have Sandy send all messages to the email relay and the relay will forward the messages to multiple accounts. It turns out that #1 won't work.

The problem seems to be that Sandy authenticates emails by matching the address in the "From:" field to one of the registered email addresses. If the address doesn't match, then Sandy rejects the email. She thinks it's spam.

In order to get email forwarding to Sandy to work, either Gmail would have to change the "From:" field of a forwarded email to be the Gmail account, or Sandy would have to accept email that has special properties. (e.g. if the "Reply-to:" field matched one of the registered email addresses, etc.)

It currently isn't possible to configure Gmail to change the "From:" address of automatically forwarded email. (e.g. as part of a filter or auto-forward.) It is possible to change the "From:" address to some other verified address, but only when you *manually* compose the email inside of Gmail. (see
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/an... )

The inability to change the "From:" address eliminates using Gmail to automatically forward email to Sandy. All emails automatically forwarded from Gmail (as part of a filter or as an auto-forward) will have the original address in the "From:" field. Sandy will use the original email address when attempting to authenticate the email.

There is another post running about this. While other people may be able to forward their emails from xxx-xxx-xxxx@att.net (or other wireless provider) to Sandy, I for one am not! I've been trying for 8 months to do this but Gmail won't forward those emails...it comes to my inbox and that's it. It doesn't go on to sandy even though i've deleted the original Rule and re setup new ones again and again. not sure why this is but finally i have just given up on Sandy and now I just email myself the reminder from my phone -- that way at least its written down and sitting in my inbox. (my main problem has been not remembering where I've street-parked the car every evening)

After some research, I can't get the "email relay" via Google to work. It's probably trivial via a procmail setup, but Google does not change the original sender address when forwarding a message, so the forwarded message shows as coming from the original sender, not the gmail account relay.

Anyone with any ideas?

That's a nice workaround

One thing that several use is a "email relay" account on Google.

Simply create a free account create 2 rules:
1) Email coming in from your specified other accounts should be forwarded to your Sandy Account.
2) Email coming in from Sandy should be forwarded to your other accounts.

Then instead of sending email to sandy, simply send it to this address. Specify this address as your 2nd email address, and you should be good to go.

I forgot to add--right now if you email Sandy from a nonrecognized address and you've already used up your primary and secondary, the click-through link in the response from Sandy results in a nondescript error. At the very least you could catch this error and explain that you only get two addresses.

This is a no-brainer. I have three work e-mail accounts, two home/personal accounts, and a email-to-text gateway. Why can't I reach Sandy on all these?

And no, I'm not willing to pay for this feature. It seems like all you need to do is change the database structure slightly, adding a table for emails instead of a column.

This is a good question. Editing the context in some ways is a little bit faster than editing the individual fields. In addition, editing the additional fields doesn't update the context, so it is a little weird when I look at the original context and it doesn't correspond. But those are just style complaints. At least one *definite* feature that I don't see is the ability to add a list to an entry after it has been defined. If I write a list in the entry initially I can edit it, but if I realize I need a list after the fact then I'm SOL. – Todd, on August 07, 2008 21:52

Not being able to edit the context is a problem for me too. I made a suggestion a while ago that Sandy should add an editable text area to every item. The area would originally filled with a copy of the "context", but you can edit it however you wish later on.

Look at this idea. http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy...

Seconded. Is it a technical decision? I can understand it might be intensive for the service to completely re-parse the context. Stikkit was often slow because of this when I used it awhile ago.

You can get around this somewhat by quoting the relevant data. Like

remember "build against nightly tarball" @todo

That should do what you want. Also, for version numbers (I've run into the same problem) prefixing with a V seemed to fix it for me.. So I now use "remember to upgrade to v1.5 tomorrow" .

See http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy... – kevin1, on July 16, 2008 07:57

Is it possible to create a "checklist", A list that contains multiple todo items?

Currently, no. The closest you can come is to create multiple todo items and give them all the same tag. See http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy...

See http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy... – kevin1, on July 16, 2008 07:13

Is it possible to update a list through Jott?

Currently, no. There are two problems with this. First, Jott doesn't make it possible to use the multiple lines and asterisks that are currently required. Second, Jott can't respond to messages from Sandy. So you can't say "update #1" because there is no #1.

Keywords might help with the first problem.
> update #1 add bananas remove milk

Having Sandy recognize names might solve the second problem. Assume that the list could be named "wine" or "trader joe's"

> update #trader joe's, add case of 2 buck chuck for the party

See http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy...

Is it possible to create a list via Jott?
(See http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy...)

Currently, no. Currently creating a list requires multiple lines and use of asterisks. Jott doesn't have that. However, I understand that a lot of options are being considered on how Sandy could best create and update lists from Jott. One idea is that Sandy could be made to recognize a few keywords. Some of the keywords could be "list" and "and" and "add" and "remove".

> remember groceries list eggs and butter and toast.
> update #1 add butter remove cheese add bananas

See http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy...