Quoth Jeremy C. Reed on Fri, Jan 12, 2001:
> On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Ilya wrote:
> > Hi. We have several users with wireless phone, which are able to recieve
> > email. But this email must not be larger than certain number of characters.
>
> I am curious. How do these wireless phones retrieve their mail?
> (Or are they actual mail hosts that mail is relayed to?)
In Israel, one of the mobile phone providers has an e-mail-to-SMS
gateway, and the other two have web sites that allow people to
send SMS messages through them (and there's a perl script
floating around that receives an e-mail message on stdin and
sends it via the web sites).
Vadik.
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I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending
their lives doing things they detest to make money they don't want to
buy things they don't need to impress people they dislike.
-- Emile Henry Gauvreay
