Bill Volk wrote:
> I'm still confused.
>
> Obviously there is a SMTP compliant server somewhere in the system, or
> else you couldn't SEND email to a iMode phone from a computer.
Right.
> Therefore there IS a mailbox for each user.
No, that doesn't follow at all. In fact there does appear to be a
mailbox but it's not easily accessible.
> The issue is, is there a POP server out there that will let client
> software access emails from something other than a phone.
The European i-mode services have a documented HTTP-based protocol for
retrieving mail. I think Japanese i-mode may be similar.
> If I had that, I could launch a anti-spam service in Japan. Your phone
> would be spared any spam that you didn't want to get.
It might be possible to do it with a Java applet on the handset but it
wouldn't work properly unless it could intercept new-mail
notifications. It could not be done by a program running elsewhere
because (a) new mail is automatically retrieved by the handset and (b)
authentication is based solely on the client address if I'm not
mistaken.
--
Ben Hutchings
Klipstein's 4th Law of Prototyping and Production:
A fail-safe circuit will destroy others.
Received on Thu Nov 20 23:17:52 2003