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Royp 2010-12-18 03:56 AM

i get mine back in seconds but still garbled

Nicolas_Thomsen 2010-12-18 04:46 AM

I just tried again today, it took an hour and a half before I got the mail, and I have turned push on. It was only the first mail I sent out when I tried it at first that came back instantly.

sooinlee1 2010-12-18 11:47 AM

Seems to work except that it lost its attachment along the way.

whpalmer4 2010-12-18 11:55 AM

It doesn't do attachments, as Brian mentioned on the iPhone thread, but apparently not this one.

Arrow 2010-12-18 01:33 PM

Thanks. This is a big help. Stating the obvious, I created a contact called "OmniFocus Action Item" with that email address making it easy to forward.

It responds quickly for me using my iPad and its mail app and gmail.

Great that it includes the full message header and the body of the message. That makes it easy to find the email in the mail app if I need to.

Obviously not as efficient or slick as the Clip-O-Tron, but a usable substitute.

lexden 2010-12-19 02:41 AM

I am still having problems with the subject and/or the body of the message returning gobbledegook when the link is emailed back to me. Often the body of the message is empty.

This is when sending from Ipad. Windows Outlook seems better and the Iphone also seems a little better.

whpalmer4 2010-12-19 10:38 AM

How about posting a screenshot of a message you've composed before you send it to the send-to-omnifocus service?

Ken Case 2010-12-20 06:16 AM

[QUOTE=ksrhee;90566]This seems to work well, but the body of text I'm getting back from the server seems corrupted - jumbled letters.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Royp;90611]i get mine back in seconds but still garbled[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=lexden;90634]I am still having problems with the subject and/or the body of the message returning gobbledegook when the link is emailed back to me. Often the body of the message is empty.

This is when sending from Ipad. Windows Outlook seems better and the Iphone also seems a little better.[/QUOTE]

Thanks for reporting this! The send-to-omnifocus email address should be able to properly decode headers and message text now.

Ken Case 2010-12-20 06:24 AM

[QUOTE=Nicolas_Thomsen;90613]I just tried again today, it took an hour and a half before I got the mail, and I have turned push on. It was only the first mail I sent out when I tried it at first that came back instantly.[/QUOTE]

As a general rule, email doesn't make any guarantees about delivery times since a server could be congested or temporarily unavailable. But our server will process a message and send back a reply as soon as it receives a message. (In fact, our send-to-omnifocus autoresponder never even records a copy of the message, it just processes it in memory and immediately starts sending the reply. Of course, if the place we're trying to send the message back to isn't accepting email there could still be a delay before it's delivered, and during that delay the message would be temporarily stored on our server's disk.)

I did notice that some messages were being delayed by our [URL="http://sqlgrey.sourceforge.net/"]spam greylisting[/URL] service (in cases where people hadn't sent any other email to omnigroup.com recently)—for a minimum of 5 minutes, but sometimes as long as an hour or more (depending on how often the sending email server retries failed delivery attempts). I've turned off the greylisting service for the send-to-omnifocus autoresponder now, so that delay should no longer happen.

Brian 2010-12-20 06:41 PM

[QUOTE=whpalmer4;90618]It doesn't do attachments, as Brian mentioned on the iPhone thread, but apparently not this one.[/QUOTE]

Darnit, I totally meant to add that. Fixing... Thanks. :-)


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