since v. 0.5 emil email client supports to access emails via mobile phones. This is a short explanation how to enable this.

Emil and WAP

To enable wap access, make sure the permission "Emil_WAP_access" is set correctly. Connect your mobile phone to http://path_to_emil/main_wml After typing in the zope username and password it is possible to :

(you should configure your pop connection correctly in the Client_Properties in the main emil Folder)

Emil and SMS

sending of SMS

Emil provides a SMS_Gateway class which supports sending of SMS to mobile phones via a email gateway. These objects should be added under the "SMS" folder.

SMS forward of new mails

To enable SMS notification of arrival of new mesages do the following:

this functionality is only useful, if emails are automatically and periodically checked. You can either write a cron job, or install xron. Add a xron object into the emil main folder and add the following line to the xron object:

<dtml-var "check_EmailAction(_.None,_)">
I could successfully trigger the xron job, but it did not reload automatically, so I suppose something is still wrong with my setup. So tell me if it works for you, or if you have problems, too.