On Mon, 4 May 2020 07:56:43 -0700 John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> dijo:
>On Sun, 3 May 2020 13:51:50 -0700 >John Sechrest <[email protected]> dijo: > >>As a work around, you can create a google voice "virtual number". >>https://voice.google.com/u/0/voicemail >> >>You can then configure this to ring any other number you want. >> >>You can then get your SMS notices as email as well as your voice >>mails. >Anyway, just now I tried to create a Google virtual number. The first >problem is that I have to decide if I want it to be Android, iOS or >web. There is no information about what are the capabilities and >requirements of each option. Nevertheless, I started by selecting >Android, and I was then presented with many pictures of presumably >Android phones in operation, with again no information about which one >to select. > >Finally, I gave up on that and went back to the beginning, where I >selected web. Google correctly figured out that I already have a Google >account and presented a login window for it. I entered the password, >which it wouldn't take. And now I'm locked out of my Google account >also. I'll have to take the 'forgot password' option but, from past >experience, that will not be a simple process either. I use Claws Mail to collect mail from my two GMX e-mail addresses, ore of which automatically receives all mail from my Gmail account (automatically forwarded). But, while I deal with the mail from the Gmail account in Claws Mail (reply, delete, etc), I also have a browser page with the Gmail account. The problem is that the browser page is in Firefox, and apparently Firefox automatically knows the password for the Gmail account. I had been trying to set up Google Voice with Chrome, which does not know the password. The long and the short is that if I go to Google Voice in Firefox I am automatically logged in and ready to proceed. But now comes the killer. I do not want the Google Voice account to have anything to do with my Android phone that is connected to MetroPCS. And why is that? Because the whole purpose of this exercise is to be able to receive text messages sent by Facebook. My Android phone cannot display text messages because (after rooting it) I deleted the entire texting application. I did this because the only text messages that I ever received were spam (averaging about one a day), and the phone would give me a loud beep to make sure that I knew that I had another exciting spam message to view. I don't need this. If the Google Voice account sends the text messages to my Android phone they will not be viewable. What I need is for Google Voice to display text messages on my computer, i.e., in Chrome or Firefox. As far as I can tell that is not an option. I do see a lot of alternatives to Google Voice. Maybe one of them will let me view text messages on my computer. Finding the right one may take a great deal of research, and will also likely be fruitless. I'll poke around for a while and see if I can find anything. Too bad. I thought Google Voice was going to solve my problem. :( _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
