(keitai-l) Re: invoke i-Appli by mail

somebody told me that it is possible to invoke the i-Appli from just the
trigger of mail  arrival. that the arrival of mail invokes some waiting
iAppli.

or may be its mAppli ..... dont have much idea about it.

so is there any way to invoke iAppli (or mAppli or some_form_i_dont_know) to
invoke just by the mail arrival event, without user have to go to the mail
and click on the link.

Thanks for any help/pointers.

cheers,
Nishant
Hottolink Inc.
PS: thanks a lot Colin for the nice explanation

----- Original Message -----
From: "T. Colin Mack" <colin_mack@mac.com>
To: <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 5:41 PM
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: invoke i-Appli by mail


>
> I haven't tried this yet, so this is all based off my memory of reading
> the docs, but...
>
> > I understand that 504 models allows the invocation of i-Appli by
> > email. There is some parameter "LaunchByMail" in ASF Configurations.
>
> Yep. Step 1 is setting the LaunchByMail value in your ADF settings.
>
> > What I understand from the japanese document is that this can have 2
> > kind of values, 1) is the email address From: who sent the mail
> > 2) we can specify keyword "any" which will invoke the iAppli from any
> > mail
>
> I don't remember reading that you could used "any". As I recall, you
> set the LaunchByMail ADF value to the domain from where the mail will
> come, e.g. "hottolink.co.jp" .
>
> > What does this launch by mail means?
> > Does this mean that on receiving the e-mail from some abc@ xyz.com the
> > i-Appli will be automatically launched.
> > or do we have to provide some link inside the mail, which the user
> > needs to click?
>
> You need to put a link into the body of the mail, that appears like an
> html hyperlink to the user. If/when the user clicks on the link, the
> appli is launched. You do this by including a specification of the
> display text, appli name appli parameters, etc. in the format they
> specify in the API manual. Kinda like an appli download link for html,
> but different format.
>
> > Do we need to set some parameters/settings on the mobile phones as a
> > user also?
>
> User has to allow launching by mail  in the appli's settings, usually
> done when the appli is downloaded (similar to the "allow tsuushinn"
> setting), but interface and timing differs among makers.
>
> > Also, is this functionality supported by all 504 models or some
> > specific models ... P or N or... ?
> >
> >
>
> In theory, all models. Good luck with that :)
>
>
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