Re: Audi web site questionnaire

[Tom Nas <tnas@euronet.nl>]

quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne) wrote:

>I already have email in my ur-quattro.  I use a Nokia 2110i cellphone,
>an 'Option International' ( http://www.option.com ) adapter, and a
>PalmPilot Professional with HandMail email software from Smartcodesoft
>( http://www.smartcodesoft.com ).
>
>The way it works - I have a system in the office running OS/2 Warp.
>When I am out of the office, this polls for email every hour.  If it
>finds new mail, it looks at the originating domain and the userid and
>checks that the message is not too large - at present the limit is
>10KB.  If the message fits my selection criteria:
>
>a) The message is rewritten to my CompuServe id and an immediate extra
>   mail poll is scheduled to send it.
>
>b) An SMS message is sent to my cellphone via the Vodafone dialup
>   SMS service on (UK number) 0385 499999.
>
>The phone in the car bleeps when the SMS message arrives.  The system
>puts the sending domain, the Subject:, and as much of line 1 as will
>fit into the SMS message - I can read this directly from the phone and
>decide whether to log on to CompuServe and collect the message using
>HandMail.
>
>I can send, too, but I've set the return address to the home server.
>
>It works throughout Europe.  Perhaps I should pop in to Ingolstadt
>in early March (I'll be in Germany) and show them how to read email
>from a 300,000km ur-quattro?

Yup, that's what my 8110i does, too. And you can send an e-mail message
directly to my phone via a gateway. Nice feature, but I've not found any
use for it yet. Apart from SMS'es the text feature of my phone goes unused.

Your mail is very hard to read due to the limited screen size, BTW. It
would be a good idea to interface it to a GPS satnav LCD screen in your
car...

Tom