[sclug] phones, photos and PC's

[Bob Franklin]

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Neil Haughton wrote:

> ... but how does one email from a mobile?

Many modern phones have email clients in.  My phone (a Sony Ericsson 
K750i) has a client that supports POP3 and IMAP (and SMTP, obviously), 
even supports SSL.  The client supports reading and sending attachments 
(the addressbook on the phone holds email addresses, also).

It can connect to mail servers directly (mine at the University, via IMAP 
and SMTP) to send and receive email directly (using IMAP is nice, also, 
because it means my mailbox on my phone and desktop are kept in sync; 
although I don't think the phone supports folders - only reading the 
INBOX).


If the phone doesn't have an email client (obviously a fairly meaty thing, 
requiring memory to handle the servers), most providers will give you a 
WAP-accessible email account (Orange certainly does).  Also, I believe you 
can send/receive through Yahoo! with a WAP interface, but I don't suppose 
this supports attachments.

   - Bob


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