Back Up

Minor changes to how we login to Google Voice and we seem to be back up and running.

Temporary Outage

Our scripts seem to be failing due to some sort of change in Google Voice. We are working to address the problem as quickly as possible and restore the service.

Large Volumes of Messages

Some users seem to be using scripts to generate emails and at times we have seen a very large numbers of SMS messages in a very short amount of time from a single user. Some users have generated upwards of 100 messages in 5 minutes using a single GvGateway.net account (and hence a single Google Voice account). While GvGateway.net does not currently impose any limits on the number of messages a user can send, it appears that doing so will result in additional messages failing to be sent by Google Voice. We suspect that Google is locking out accounts that exhibit this behavior for a period of time.

Our current estimate is that sending more than 100 SMS messages on a single Google Voice account in a 5 minute period results in the account being unable to send additional messages for 24 hours.

Please keep in mind that GvGateway.net users use there own Google Voice account to send SMS messages and that your use of Google Voice should always conform to the Google terms of service.

Service Interruption

We had 2 problems with GvGateway.net over the weekend that resulted in a service outage and delays in delivering messages. The first was caused by a huge influx of thousands of messages in a very short time. This resulted in delays in getting SMS messages late last week and over the weekend. The second issue was an ISP problem that impacted the internet connectivity of our server and caused a service outage on Saturday afternoon and Sunday.

Both issues have now been resolved and GvGateway.net is back to processing emails and generating SMS messages nearly instantly. Steps are being taken to prevent these types of issues in the future.

Please send us your feedback on our GvGateway.net Beta at GvGatewayBeta@gmail.com or post your comments here.

GvGateway.net Beta Status Update

The GvGateway.net site continues to add users and is running well. One minor issue has been addressed that caused problems when too email messages arrived simultaneously but other than this things have been running great.

Updated signup, account login, account editing and activation code is being completed and tested. Expect this to been rolled out in a couple of weeks. It will make for easier signed and allow the ability to readily update account information.

GvGateway.net Beta Update

The latest problem that was discovered is that some messages with empty bodies where failing to be forwarded as text messages. This has now been fixed and the site is running smoothly.

Anyone having issues please email us or post your issues here.

GVGateway.net Updates

We have found that some users have been having problems completing the signup and activation process. Our QA testing has found that accounts with single and double quotes (and perhaps some other special characters as well) in their passwords may have trouble and be told their login credentials and password do not match.

We now believe that these issues have been successfully addressed and hope that potential users who initially encountered signup issue will try again.

Any users having issues with signup or trouble with emails that don't show up as SMS messages, please email GVGatewayBeta@gmail.com or post here and we will help diagnose and fix the issues as quickly as possible.

Thanks again for using GVGateway.net

GVGateway.net Update

The GVGateway.net Beta community has continued to grow and the site is running smoothly with no new bugs discovered.

We am still seeing some new users adding 1, +1, ( ) and dashes to the phone number portion of the email addresses used to email GVGateawy.net. The code was updated tonight to accept:


+1-800-555-1212@GVGateway.net

+1(800)555-1212@GVGateway.net

(800)555-1212@GVGateway.net

800.555.1212@gvgateway.net

and various other similar formats in addition to the actually intended

8005551212@gvgateway.net

format. This should minimize the frustration of new users who signup and never get there text messages because of incorrectly formated email addresses.

Thanks for testing GVGateway.net and keep sending feedback

GVGateway.net Beta Update

After a few early issues the GVGateway.net site seems to be running well and messages appear to be flowing.

Having noticed that a number of the bounced emails that were rejected had a leading 1 prefixed to the 10 digit phone number, I have modified the scripts to allow either 10 digit phone number or an 11 digit number with a leading 1. This will match what other email gateway sites for many carriers do and result in fewer rejected emails.

GVGateway.net FAQ page added

A Frequently Asked Questions page has been added to the site to address common user questions. There is a link at the bottom of the main GVGateway.net page or you can access it from the following like:

http://gvgateway.net/faq.htm

GVGateway.net Beta Launched

GVGateway.net (http://GVGateway.net) is a Email to SMS gateway primarily designed for Google Voice users. Most cellular services provide a gateway service that accepts email and forwards it to a cell phone as a text message (SMS). For instance if you are an AT&T customer and your cell phone number is 800-555-1212 you can send email to 8005551212@txt.att.net and it will be forward to you cell phone as a text message (SMS).


Until now there has not been such gateway for users of the free Google Voice text messaging service. GVGateway.net provides this service for any US cell phone numbers, Google Voice numbers, any number reachable through the Google Voice texting service. Users must signup and supply a Google Voice login which is used to send the text messages. Once a user has signed up they are given an email address in the form of 10_digit_phone_number@GVGateway.net. Emails to this phone number are forwarded as text messages. 


For messages sent to Google Voice accounts the message is not limited to the typical 160 character limit generally imposed on text messages.


Users can signup and begin using the service which is now available as a free public beta at http://www.GVGateway.net