SMS, EMS vs. POP3 & IMAP phone clients

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I got a free Nokia 3589i phone when we switched to Verizon. I do a
fair amount of field work and don't always pack my laptop. My employer
also uses Verizon. It's a small business and I'm the token technical
guy, so I'd like to use exploit the technology as much as possible.

1. According to literature, the 3589i is EMS-capable, but VZW seems to
support only SMS. At least, I can only send an SMS text message via
vtext.com. Am I missing something? It would be handy to send and
receive longer messages.

2. What is your practical experience with mail and messaging clients
like Soda Pop Mail? I realize that I can't do anything with file
attachments, but what kind of additional capability is possible? Is an
email client simply eye-candy, or can it add something useful to a
business?

Thanks for all info and opinions.

Cheers!
Dave
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In article <9ikfv1-23b.ln1@home.rogerbinns.com>, rogerb@rogerbinns.com
says...
> Dave wrote:
> > 2. What is your practical experience with mail and messaging clients
> > like Soda Pop Mail? I realize that I can't do anything with file
> > attachments, but what kind of additional capability is possible? Is an
> > email client simply eye-candy, or can it add something useful to a
> > business?
>
> I detest all those GIN type programs. The latency is especially bad.
> You also use air time, and it can take quite a while to figure out that
> you have nothing to attend to (which is the normal case).
>
> In my experience it is better to run your own mail filters etc that
> then summarise important information and send it to your phone as sms
> messages. You can give people priority keywords, switch the alerts
> off when on holiday (or send them to someone else), send them to
> multiple people, spread long ones across multiple messages etc.
>
> Roger
>
>
>
Roger,

What program or service are you using to do the filtering, spanning of
long emails etc.?

Thanks.
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Drum-

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In article <0efgv1-e9p.ln1@home.rogerbinns.com>, rogerb@rogerbinns.com
says...
> Drumstick wrote:
> > What program or service are you using to do the filtering, spanning of
> > long emails etc.?
>
> I run my own mail server for my domain on a Linux box so the short answer
> is "whatever I want". Personally I use qmail as the mta and maildrop
> as the mail delivery agent. A more common configuration is postfix and
> procmail. And since I am a programmer I make code do whatever I want.
> Most of my scripts are in Python.
>
> Roger
>
>
>

Understood.
Thanks.
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Drum-