Chapter 18: Sending Mail to a Pager or Beeper

In IMail Server, you use an alias to forward mail to a pager, or to notify you by beeper that mail has arrived.

To forward mail to a pager, you can create an alias named something like "PageFred" and define a pager ID and phone number for the alias. Users can then address mail to the alias "PageFred" and the IMail Server routes the message to the specified pager. After the alias is set up, anyone can send a message to a pager by entering the specified alias in the "To:" field of the message. The pager will receive up to the number of characters specified in the Maximum Size box (200 characters is both the default and the maximum).

To send a notification to a beeper that mail has arrived, you can create an alias named something like "BeepFred" and define a pager ID and phone number for the alias. After the alias is set up, when anyone sends a mail message to "BeepFred," the predefined beeper code is sent to the beeper, alerting the recipient that they have received a new mail message.

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