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Can you give an example of an email you've tryied?

Posted 2 years ago

I just sent one with this as the first line;
Due:4/15/09- didn't register a due date-(No space after colon)

Some other older ones I made include-
Due:Sunday
List: Business

or another-

Due: April 18 (this with a space, still didn't register a due date.)
These all just go to my inbox with no due date or other lists like I intend.
Thanks..

Posted 2 years ago

Hi jeff.franke,

One thing that may be worth double checking is whether your email has a signature or a disclaimer at the end -- if so, after the tasks details you'll need to include '-end-' on a line by itself, and everything after this line will be ignored (otherwise there may be some problems processing the task details).

If you still experience problems, please feel free to submit an issue report via our support system -- we can check things out and try and figure out what's happening here.

Thanks! :)

Posted 2 years ago

I think that the 3 hyphen thing works for me because the forwarded email becomes a note like I want. There are at least three hyphens in the line after my task email, which are from the header line on the forwarded email. I'll put a hard break in like you suggest and see if I get any different result. I'll try another email client too. Thanks everybody for tossing in ideas. I'll follow up after Tax Day! Now where's my task list?????

Posted 2 years ago

Here's what I tried today and it still just goes in the inbox with no due date. I wanted to send it to the particular list and with a due date.
Whats wrong here?

List: Bills
Due: Tomorrow
----end
---------- Forwarded message -------
15 Apr 2009, 7:48PM | Edit |

Posted 2 years ago

Hi Jeff,

I think the problem might be the line:

----end

This line needs to be this instead:

-end-

Hope this helps!

Posted 2 years ago

Hi all, I am checking back to say all I can get the emailed tasks to do is go to inbox. None of the switches for sending to a task list or putting a due date are working for me in Chrome on Vista, or Firefox. Its got to be something with my Google domain mail I guess. I should try it with Thunderbird, but I think I did.

Posted 2 years ago

I tested from my Google Apps domain address and couldn't exactly reproduce the problem. Some ideas:
1. Spaces aren't necessary; you could try List:Bills and see if that makes a difference (though it worked both ways for me).
2. It shouldn't matter whether you're using Thunderbird or Gmail to send it.
3. The only time I couldn't get it to work was when I tried List: "Test List"; not sure how I'd specify it if the List had a space in it.

Could you post another example now that you've resolved the "-end-" part?

Posted 2 years ago