From: "wbsurfver@..." <wbsurfver@...>
Date: 2008-06-23T12:28:15+09:00
Subject: Re: my idea to read my email from my cell phone

On Jun 22, 3:41 pm, Justin Collins <justincoll...@ucla.edu> wrote:
> wbsurf...@yahoo.com wrote:
> >  I have an idea on how to read email from my cell phone, I want to do
> > this from my main email which doesn't have a mobile portal. There is a
> > portal for yahoo mail, but the idea is, suppose I go out to lunch for
> > a couple of hours, I want to check my main email to see if anyone has
> > sent me any important messages and if I need to hurry back to my
> > computer etc.
>
> > Here's sort of what I came up with:
>
> > 1. first of all, the ruby version between my laptop and my host can
> > vary, so I don't think I can use drb.
>
> > 2. Also, I don't think I want to store the password to my main email
> > anyplace on my hosted site.
>
> > Given that, when I go out to lunch, I would start up a process on my
> > laptop that reads my email using ruby net::pop
> > class and then opens something like a socket to my hosted site, then
> > it sends the emails and as long as the socket remains open, it allows
> > them to be access through a cell phone browser.
>
> >  That would mean my emails are visible (read only) for a short time
> > until I shut down the socket connection.
>
> >  I would also password protect the access through a simple 4 digit
> > password, assuming I can get sessions to work with my cell phone, if
> > not I could possibly figure out a scheme of generating keys and
> > storing them in the rendered pages or something a bit complex.
>
> >  Let me know if there might be a better approach.
>
> I did something like this a while back, but without the 2nd requirement
> because I just hosted it on my home computer. I think it might be
> simpler if you can use IMAP, however.
>
> What I did was use the Ruby IMAP library and coded up some rhtml pages
> to use with eruby. That was about all I needed to be able to read and
> delete mail from my cell phone. But then I got a new phone which had
> built-in email functionality so I stopped working on it. If you would
> like to take a look at it, I can send you the code in its current state.
> I stored the passwords, but you could just add a form to send it from
> your cell phone instead.
>
> -Justin


 I can get yahoo email, but it seems usefull to be able to read my
regular email that most people would send me email on.
I actually just finished writing a plugin to help show wma content for
my cell phone