Voicemail label in Gmail
Posted in Technicalon Feb 5, 2008
In my attempt to clean up my jacobbrunson.com inbox (hosted through Google Apps; powered by Gmail), I wanted to take all the email messages about voicemail from GrandCentral, Gizmo Project, and others, and apply a label to them so I can sort them away.
I thought an appropriate label for these types of messages would be Voicemail.
When I tried this, it returned the following error message:
System specific names are not allowed. Please try another name.
I don’t understand why Voicemail would be a system specific name, unless Google has something special coming to Gmail.
- Tags: Email, Gizmo Project, gmail, Google, Grand Central, voicemail
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5 Comments
Justin Campbell
February 5th, 2008 at 9:11 am
Can I have a GrandCentral invite? I’ve been waiting forever for them to get out of beta…
Alex
February 8th, 2008 at 10:07 am
Probably has something to do with Android features that are upcoming.
p.s. Do you have a feed for you blog? I can get feeds for comments on individual posts, but I can’t seem to get a feed for your blog itself.
p.p.s How’s Colorado?
jacob
February 8th, 2008 at 10:29 am
If you want my techblog feed: http://jacob.peargrove.com/tech/feed/atom/
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pez252
March 19th, 2008 at 5:04 am
I ran into the same issue. I think it has something to do with grandcentral. Given that Google now owns them, I think it is reasonable to have some tight integration with gmail in the future. Even if this is just a thought for gmail developers at this point, Google would want to reserve the voicemail label to avoid conflicts if integration ever sees the light of day.
Louis
April 23rd, 2008 at 11:17 am
Voicemail has to do with Google Talk. If somebody calls you and you are offline, it will be sent to your inbox as an MP3. This message will be in the label Voicemail, just like chats are saved in Chats.