(keitai-l) Re: A question about email on phones in Japan

From: Tom Motoyoshi Kalland <tmk_at_infeline.org>
Date: 11/18/03
Message-ID: <3FB9F6A7.9090906@infeline.org>
I think the manual that came with my au phone said something about 
pop'ing or imap'ing the keitai mail from a computer. maybe it was the 
other way around. :/

.tmk


Curt Sampson wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Bill Volk wrote:
> 
> 
>>Is there a POP I can use ... to read emails that have been sent to my
>>phone ... on a standard desktop computer.
> 
> 
> No.
> 
> The solution I use for this is to have a special keitai address on my
> domain (@cynic.net) that forwards the message to both my main inbox and
> the @docomo.ne.jp address. Thus, I get a copy of every message to each.
> 
> Dealing with responses from the computer is easy; I have a role in
> pine that detects mail to the address and sets the return address
> appropriately.
> 
> Dealing with responses from the phone is a little more difficult.
> Basically, I send all responses back to an address on my mail server
> that feeds them into a script. This script removes the first line of the
> body and puts that in the To: line, and then forwards the e-mail to that
> address. (Well, there are some other security measures in place, too,
> but I'm not going to get into those.)
> 
> This doesn't currently work for i-Shot mail, but I think I can probably
> tweak it to work, and maybe even improve the i-shot mail somewhat.
> 
> cjs
Received on Tue Nov 18 12:39:20 2003