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Wow, just found this via Ken's post here: http://beta.friendfeed.com/friendf...
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This is a nice little gem. Can you help with Ken's (and my) query at the link please?
- Kol Tregaskes
:-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I'm trying to use Mail2FF to email to a room that has a blank in the name, e.g.: Payments News. What's the correct email format to use if the room has a blank in the name?
Use the room's nickname. The nickname is the last component of room's URL. For example, the nickname for this room is "mail2ff". To send to this room, use mail2ff+sjl+<your remote key>@mail2ff.com.
- Gary Burd
When I use the nickname (payments-news), the minus sign in the nickname seems to result in Mail2FF rejecting the mail with the message "The error that the other server returned was: 550 550 FRIENDFEED ERROR: Invalid email address format. The email address format for mail2ff is nickname+key@mail2ff.com or room+nickname+key@mail2ff.com (state 15)."
- Scott Loftesness
That's a bug in mail2ff. I'll fix it when I return from vacation on Monday. I apologize for the inconvenience.
- Gary Burd
Gary - thanks!
- Scott Loftesness
One question. Is there ayway to create line breaks in the comment that is added in the body of the mail? I try sending a mail with paragraph breaks but it appears on FF all clumped up to one paragraph. Thanks.
No, FriendFeed does not support line breaks in comments.
- Gary Burd
Mail2FF is great- just got it working at our site http://www.nostradamical.com/beta - a new social prediction market. When people make a forecast against a world event prediction thei forecast is posted to their Friendfeed page and the room - http://friendfeed.com/rooms...
Technical details of permanent failure: Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information ..blah blah ... Mail2FF is down and where is said proprietor??
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Mail2FF is down and it would be nice if we could get an update on this
- John Blanton
What is the error message returned from mail2ff? It's at the end of the paragraph that you started to quote.
- Gary Burd
sorry for the late reply .. been really busy tonight .. it said that the recipient domain had refused the connection ..I sent it to the wrong room by mistake only to realize that right after I sent it .. then I sent it to the right room and it still came back undelivered.. .I changed my remote key and it worked the 3rd time <edit>I do hope I don't have to change my remote key everytime I need to or want to use Mail2FF</edit>
- John Blanton
seems like Mail2FF is down. i just got a "Technical details of permanent failure: Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain..." error :-(
- AJ Batac
Thank you for reporting the problem.
- Gary Burd
I fixed the problem.
- Gary Burd
Hi All, I'm getting rejected mail when I try to post pics via mail2ff. It worked for me back in June and now its not. I've triple checked the address. Is anyone else having issues? Has something changed? Thanks for any assistance.
FriendFeed rejected the message because the image format is not supported. The delivery failure message should have included the text "Image format not supported", but that's often difficult to spot in the delivery failure message gobbledygook.
- Gary Burd
Does mail2FF take .gifs? sent one but it hasn't showed up
I don't see why it wouldn't.
- Aaron Myers
I'm new to M2FF and new to FF, however I've been using this nifty little app to post my pictures from my blackberry. But it took the first 4 and posted them like nothing. I then sent 2 more and the previous 4 were replaced by the newer 2. Is there a limit as to how many I can do over a fixed time?
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Scratch that. I just now noticed the link to expand. Forget I asking anything.
- Adam
FF has interesting picture replacement algorithms. Wait 1+ hr between sets if you want them to load separately.
- Mitchell Tsai
Noted.
- Adam
mail 2 ff is down?
It's up. Please check that you used the correct remote key.
- Gary Burd
i have the right remote key. but it still doesn't work!
- Quan Mengli
I tried to use it yesterday and got a bounce back.
- Michael Zitek
Mail2ff is unable to submit items to FriendFeed because Mail2ff has hit a limit imposed by FriendFeed. I am investigating how to fix this.
- Gary Burd
Mail2ff is working again. Thank you for reporting the problem.
- Gary Burd
it still doesn't work
- Avatar/∑
I see three entries posted via mail2ff at http://friendfeed.com/hung. Can you provide more details on what's not working?
- Gary Burd
i just updated 3 posts with mail2ff after these posts, but no one can be display on my page.
- Avatar/∑
it's ok now. but it is not so stable.
- Avatar/∑
Mail2ff has not posted anything I sent it for over 12 hours. Should I resend? Or is this a matter of ask and make happen, instead of it posting automatically?
- Josh Jenkins
FriendFeed returns an error to Mail2ff for your messages. Resending will not help. I suspect that the two causes are: message subject is blank, image format not supported by FriendFeed. Work to return informative errors from Mail2ff is in progress. What image format are you sending?
- Gary Burd
Gary: .bmp; Though I don't believe that is a major problem. A recommended solution would be if Mail2ff can send an automatic email back stating what the problem was specifically. Hopefully it can handle that kind of Algorithm. Otherwise, we'll never know outside of this discussion. I'll change it to a .jpg and try resending it.
- Josh Jenkins
Work to return errors to the sender is in progress.
- Gary Burd
I will check bmps later on this weekend.
- Gary Burd
I changed it to jpg and it worked instantly. Make sure FF staff are notified of this.
- Josh Jenkins
It would be very cool to make Mail 2 FF ignore subject lines. When I send an email as a text message from my phone, it picks the first few characters of the message as the subject line. Very annoying. Something like nosubj+username+apikey@mail2ff.com and it would then post the entire message body.
http://friendfeed.com/e... shows how annoying it is. The entire message made it in as a comment, but I'd love it if the entire message were the post and there were no comment at all!
- James (@willia4)
How about simply detecting when the subject is a prefix of the body and then making the body be the post (assuming it's not really long).
- Paul Buchheit
Yes, I will detect the matching prefix.
- Gary Burd
Gary -- Thanks!!
- James (@willia4)
Tried twice, cut and paste nickame + remote key (so no typo), but emails to mail2ff bounce back (550 no such user)
The mail you sent used nickname "Ppm". Note the uppercase P. Try sending mail with a lowercase "ppm".
- Gary Burd
Might as well just .lower() the nickname since it appears that you can't have uppercase in it. Changed in fftogo too: http://github.com/bgolub...
- Benjamin Golub
Thanks. Will try again using lowercase. Problem is: Thunderbirds automatically capitalizes email address, so I will have to use Outlook.
- Pierre-Philippe Martin
from twhirl
It worked! Thanks. The lowercase nickname did the trick.
- Pierre-Philippe Martin
from twhirl
The message I sent from my phone never showed up in FF.
FriendFeed returned an error to Mail 2 FF. I do not know the cause of the error. I will update Mail 2 FF to return an error when this happens.
- Gary Burd
Is Mail 2 FF still up I just tried sending something but it hasn't posted within the hour ago when I sent it .. I'm trying again .. I'm not getting any fatal error msgs
Yes, it's still up. The server logs show one inbound message from you. The time in in the logs is very close to the time for this entry: http://friendfeed.com/e... I suspect the message was hung up in your mail server.
- Gary Burd
My message never posted. any way I can check to see if it was received by friendfeed?
- John Frost
John, Mail2ff received an error from FriendFeed when submitting your message. I expect that you will get message about this in a day or so.
- Gary Burd
FYI, same here. Posted through Mail2ff last night but never posted. Appreciate the time you're putting in on this, though, Gary. Great idea.
- Jim Stanger
Jim, your message was above the Mail 2 FF size limit. Your mail server should have returned a message to you shortly after you sent it.
- Gary Burd
Whoops. Thanks, bud. I'll send smaller pix.
- Jim Stanger
Gray, the Mail2FF's maximum attachment size is ? 1M? OR?
- Quan Mengli
The maximum message size is approximately 1.5 MB.
- Gary Burd
thx,Gary!
- Quan Mengli
figured it out. I had the room name wrong. check url, not 'alias' for room
- John Frost
Ross's FriendFeed Tutorial #2: Email Pictures To FriendFeed Using Mail2FF - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2008...
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thanks for the tutorial .. it'll help explain things to many people :)
- John Blanton
Mail 2 FF is live - http://mail2ff.com/
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Very cool!
- Scott Ludwig
Mail 2 FF rocks. Thanks Gary!
- Earle Martin
Bummer... just tried and got this error:
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err - error: PERM_FAILURE: Gmail tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server returned was: 550 550 no such user (state 17).
- Her Lindsay-ness
sent the message to bluecockatoo+[my key here]@mail2ff.com - right?
- Her Lindsay-ness
Lindsay, can you please double check your key? Mail2ff returns this error on authentication error from FriendFeed.
- Gary Burd
I tried using one of my gmail accounts as well and I didn't get any errors. I'll try again and see if I can't get the same error or something similar. I can't email photo attachments using Mail2FF .. :( oh well.
- John Blanton
Make sure you have something typed in for your Subject. Otherwise I was getting errors.
- Mike Reynolds
“Trying out Mail 2 FF” - http://friendfeed.com/e...
Mike Reynolds liked this
Works now! Yeah, problem was a typo in the key. Thanks!
- Her Lindsay-ness
people keep posting testing stuff in this room :)
- Jansen Lu
Is that a complaint or an encouragement, Jansen? I guess the smilie face makes it the latter...
- Phil G
no complaints at all. just find it interesting to see several testing posts here. i love mail2ff and covered it in my blog http://tech.azuremedia.net/2008... but the contents are in Chinese.
- Jansen Lu
Testing :)
- Mike Reynolds
Mail2ff is implemented in Python.
Jick Nan, Mike Reynolds, Susan Beebe and 2 other people liked this
Love your graphics. Know you audience, and grab their attention.
- Russellreno
looks yucky
- Akshay Dodeja
Mail2ff does not use Google Apps.
- Gary Burd
Although I don't know it was well as PHP, I really like how Python looks. It's apparently really nice for mathematical and analytical applications. And once again, congrats to Gary for this work of art.
- Mike Reynolds
mail2ff supports rooms: send mail to room+nickname+key@mail2ff.com - http://mail2ff.com/
Dan Hsiao, Susan Beebe, Mike Reynolds and 2 other people liked this
cool!
- Susan Beebe
My props to Gary for this great app! I have to say ... IT WORKS (sorry for all caps, but I am happy) ... so this opens up a new gateway into FriendFeed :)
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For room posts it would be better to be nickname+key+room because of the way iphone mail remembers addresses. That way, I can press the first letter of my username - "s", and see all the mail2ff addresses it has remembered for me.
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Is nickname+room+key a better choice? This keeps the room name from getting lost after noise of the key.
- Gary Burd
Good idea, that makes sense.
- Scott Ludwig
nickname+key+room is better, it's help to remember every room mail via autocomplete.
- gmarketer
@:-x I agree with you.
- Scott Ludwig
yes Scott. good point!
- Jansen Lu
“Mail2ff Email Test” - http://friendfeed.com/e...
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“(Jott from Mike Reynolds) Testing.” - http://friendfeed.com/e...
“(Jott from Mike Reynolds) Testing. Testing to Franc...” - http://friendfeed.com/e...
would be better if mail2ff smartly remove the mail sig - http://friendfeed.com/e...
Works better if your feed is public... We can't see the problem.
- Voyagerfan5761
sorry, forgot that.
- number5
looks like this:here we are! -- simple is good http://brucewang.net http://io.brucewang.net http://twitter.com/number5 skype: number5
- number5
I added sig removal to feature request list. Thank you for the feedback.
- Gary Burd
“再试中文标题，作者说改好了-” - http://friendfeed.com/e...
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Subject in Chinese/GB2312 display right now, wonderful RFC 2047! Thanks Gary!
- Jick Nan
JPG Attachments don't seem to be working
I keep getting the Error 500 MailDeliverySubsystem return error when I try to send a picture attachment via gmail? So what's the max limit for picture size? a lot of the pictures I've taken are upwards of 3MB. -- John Blanton Memphis TN Host/Producer - JohnB v2.0 @ Talkshoe.com 1-724-444-7444 Talkcast id# 15982
- John Blanton
The picture size limit is approximately 1.5 MB.
- Gary Burd
Way cool, but does something with the subject line =) - http://friendfeed.com/e...
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Bug report: mail2ff does not do MIME-decoding (rfc2047) of subject - http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc...
Thank you for the report. I added this to the list of issues to fix.
- Gary Burd
Can mail2ff speak GB2312 for Chinese users? See http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Jick Nan
The RFC 2047 issue is fixed. Subjects in GB2312 should work now.
- Gary Burd
Cool! Did you create this Gary? This has been on my "things I personally want" list for a long time. Does it work with all the carriers?
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Yes, I created Mail2ff. It should work with any carrier that can send email.
- Gary Burd
With sprint at least, you need to download the photo from their dumb website (I think there's a tag in the html that gives the url). Also, it would be cool to address rooms using +roomname (nickname+key+room@ff2mail.com).
- Paul Buchheit
Is this intended to be more for phone 2 mail, as Paul is trying? My test from a standard e-mail client was picture perfect. (I assume it works with GMail as well)
- Louis Gray
re: rooms - I will add support tomorrow. re: sprint - I'll see what I can do if you send example mail to my Gmail account.
- Gary Burd
re: intended use - Although mail2ff can be used from any email client, I built mail2ff for use use on camera phones. Sending email to @mail2ff.com from a desktop computer is not any easier than using FriendFeed's web UI. For most phones, email is the only way to upload a photo.
- Gary Burd
It's also handy for forwarding content into ff from email or cc'ing ff.
- Paul Buchheit
Is specifying one's own storage anywhere on the roadmap? =)
- Bleys
@bleys Can you give an example of the storage you want to use?
- Gary Burd
Thanks Gary!
- Mitchell Tsai
Great job - thanks for putting this together Gary!
- Frederic
@Gary: Gallery2 where I currently keep photos and such. A Picasa album. I understand that any personalization like this will require storing user data on mail2ff server (everything needed for the existing workflow comes in the e-mail, right?), so it's a large and not-KISS change for sure
- Bleys
it worked well using gmail with my mobile phone,using a photo as attachment! thank you for this. mobile posting with images makes ff (even more) better than twitter!!!
- Alessandro
@Alex Picasa and Gallery2 are more difficult than FF for the reason you noted. Support for these services is not on the current roadmap.
- Gary Burd
@Gary: got it. The service's great regardless. Thank you!
- Bleys
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