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Surf the Web using email (continued)
Just send this email message to the www4mail server, and you'll retrieve the text contents of my Web page.
What happens after I send my email?
Like any email message, you'll have to wait for a reply. Usually the reply will come back within a couple of minutes, although it may take longer or even shorter depending on the load on the Web-to-email server. To account for this delay and minimize the number of times you need to dial out from your Palm handheld, you can use the following strategy.
First, compose the Web-to-email message on your Palm handheld. Then connect to your ISP (Internet Service Provider) using a modem or cell phone. Send the Web-to-email message and retrieve any email waiting for on the mail server. This can take a couple of minutes if you get a measurable amount of email. Try again to retrieve email to see if the response has come back yet. If not, hang up and try connecting again later.
What do you get back?
You'll get back a single email message in response to your request. The first part will contain some usage statistics and general server information. It will look something like this:
Dear User,
Statistics of your (per week) usage of this service
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Remaining Quota : 199 request(s) or 15728640 (bytes)
Used Quota : 1 requests(s) or 0 (bytes)
Last access :
Details for Current Page
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URL : http://www.monmouth.com/~mconnick/palm.htm
Mail Received : Mon Aug 13 10:39:37 2001
Request Process : Mon Aug 13 10:39:40 2001
Delivery Time : Mon Aug 13 10:39:44 2001
HELP TIP: Try our new help system send the command "help index"
WEB <-> E-mail Service by www4mail version: 2.4p1 running on
collaborium.org
WWW4MAIL Version 2.4p1: For more information send HELP INFO
Notice: All requests to this service are stored in log files.
Disclaimer: The provider of this service cannot be held responsible for the
contents, presentation or mis-presentation of documents.
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Immediately after this will be the text contents of the page you requested. Below is an example of what this looks like:
Links To My PalmPower Enterprise Edition Articles
One source of information I think you may find of use are the articles
I've written for the Web-based PalmPower Magazine Enterprise Edition.
I hope you will find the following links to these articles helpful for
making fuller use of your Palm handheld.
[1]Be enterprising in real-time, use AvantGo Wireless
[2]Be enterprising, use AvantGo for offline browsing
[3]email solutions, from simple to sophisticated
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Note the numbers above that are surrounded by square brackets, (i.e., [1], [2], [3]). These indicate hypertext links that are stored on the page you requested. At the bottom of the email message, you'll see the URLs referenced in these links in the following format:
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