(keitai-l) Re: How Mobile E-mail Should Work

Curt,

There is already a "remote mail service" on the imode menu. The url is
http://rmail.netvillage.ne.jp. You can find it under the mail menu. They
claim to have 350000 members already. At 100Yen thats a cool 35 million yen
a month before taking docomo's cut.

You can register all you r POP/SMTP accounts there and receive/send as many
mails as you wish.
I use this service and I must say it is very rich in functionality. You can
also get a  POP account from them with a new address if you like.

Once you have set up your accounts you can jump to you inbox in just a
couple of clicks as long as you "save screen" (similar to bookmark) the
login screen.
You can even read MS Word files that are attached to your emails, Send the
email text to a nearby fax machine & all this from your phone

Ian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Curt Sampson" <cjs@cynic.net>
To: <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 4:01 PM
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: How Mobile E-mail Should Work


> On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Benjamin Kowarsch wrote:
>
> > This may work for you, but keep in mind that the majority of users do
not
> > have their own mail-server and probably wouldn't even want to bother
> > setting everything up as you described.
>
> True enough. On the other hand, someone with a bit of entreprenurial
> spirit could set up a commerical service to do all of this for a few
> hundred yen a month. It could even provide POP/IMAP mailboxes for people
> who don't have one at another place already, web-based e-mail, a large
> selection of spam filters, ability to use your i-mode browser to see
> what's come in your regular mailbox, and so on and so forth. I'm tempted
> to do it myself, except that the "can't change your return address to
> something outside of @docomo.ne.jp" problem has solutions that are too
> "hackish" for ordinary users.
>
> The e-mail-over-cellphone-web-browser option sounds nightmarish to
> me. Editing messages on my keitai now is bad enough; I'd hate to be
> doing it in an i-mode web form, much less a WAP one. And I'd also lose
> the ability to read and compose my replies on the subway and then send
> them all when I get outside again.
>
> For the SMS option, I take it that most people, when they're just trying
> to reach someone right away on another phone, would just send an SMS
> message and ignore e-mail altogether? Is there a way to set it up so
> that the SMS message would also get cc'd to my desktop mailbox, and
> I could reply to it from there? This is, to my mind, one of the great
> advantages of i-mode: since e-mail is e-mail, you can set yourself up
> to deal with it on the most convenient device to hand.
>
> cjs
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