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cubiclesoft
Google Voice no longer works.
After doing a bit of research, it looks like Google Voice is gone from the Wikipedia gateway list but the reason for the removal is not that it doesn't work, but rather that it requires a special, non-standard format of 'googlevoicenumber.destinationnumber.someguid@txt.voice.google.com'. Also, the domain 'txt.voice.google.com' has three valid MX records and a SMTP server sits at each one waiting for connections - from a purely technical perspective, everything needed for a gateway is there.
The only way to get the 'someguid' part is for the 'destinationnumber' to have that number send a SMS to 'googlevoicenumber'. That special format is probably an anti-spam/anti-abuse measure. You can get the correct '{number}' prefix by sending a SMS to yourself after enabling SMS to e-mail in your Google Voice account and sending a SMS from your Google Voice number to itself.
Removing Google Voice from the list is probably not the correct answer. However, '{number}' might not be the best solution either. I'm open to suggestions.
