AirNote Wireless Email Features

The following AirNote features are available to you and can be set up through our website at www.AirNote.net.

Communication through the AirNote website.

As an AirNote subscriber, you can design your own custom delivery profile for email messages that will be delivered to your wireless device. Your profile resides on the AirNote website. From the AirNote home page, click on "Logon" from the left-hand menu. This will bring you to our logon page. Your AirNote Name is the portion of your AirNote email alias that precedes "@AirNote.net", and your default password is your alphanumeric PIN number. It is recommended that you change your password the first time you login. If you do not know your PIN number or have any questions, send your questions or comments to us via email at support@AirNote.net.

Basic Settings

• Message Format. You may select from 3 options for the content we send to your wireless device: From, Subject and the Body; From and Subject only; and lastly, the Subject and Body only. You can set the maximum number of characters which will be sent to your wireless device and whether to compress messages by replacing selected words with abbreviations.

• Time Zone. You may set your time zone, and change it as you move around the country. All AirNote delivery schedules will be set according to the time zone you set here.

• Email Forwarding. When an email message reaches the AirNote service, it becomes an AirNote message, and is sent to your wireless device. You can also have copies of that email message forwarded to one or more additional email addresses.
  • As an Example: Your co-workers send email from the company mail system to AirNote and AirNote sends it to your wireless device. The email message from your co-worker can also be forwarded to the email service you may use at home for your personal and family email.

• Change Password. When we first set up your subscription for AirNote you will receive a user name and password. The user name and password will be sent to your wireless device. We suggest that you then go onto the AirNote website and change your password to something that is both unique and memorable to you.

• Acknowledgments. AirNote can provide an acknowledgment back to the sender, acknowledging that the email message has been received by the AirNote service, and that an AirNote message has been sent to the paging tower. You may enter a customized acknowledgment, or suppress it entirely.

Retrieve Messages.

You can access your AirNote messages from our web site for up to 15 days. (Maximum 99 messages) You may also verify the time your message was received by our gateway and the time we delivered it to your wireless carrier.

Delivery Control.

Filtering may be the most effective AirNote feature available to you. Filtering is important if you are a frequent wireless device user, or if you want to control your paging costs. This set of features will give you greater control over what email is forwarded to your wireless device as AirNote messages, and of course which email is not forwarded to your wireless device. As you might guess from their titles, Filtering and Advanced Rules let you decide which email is Hot… or important, and which email is Junk… or not important enough to forward to your wireless device.

• Hot List. Email from people on your Hot List will always be sent to your wireless device, and you can optionally specify a custom message length for each of your Hot List entries. For example, you may specify that any messages from your manager, manager@companyname.com should include 500 characters.

• Junk List. Email from people on your Junk List will never be sent to your wireless device.

• Advanced Rules. For more flexible delivery control, you can set up filters based on the sender or recipients of the email, the subject, the priority, or the body. Messages that match a rule may be ignored; delivered to your email, wireless device, or fax; forwarded to other email or fax addresses; or a custom reply may be sent.

• Message Limits.
  • Message Limits. This setting allows you to set hourly and daily limits on the number of AirNote messages that will be sent to your wireless device.
  • Duplicates. AirNote will also detect duplicate messages during a specified time period and suppress sending them to your wireless device. This feature is specifically intended for users who may be receiving automatically generated computer system status messages from computers.

Delivery Scheduling

This feature allows you to specify different delivery options for different times of the day or days of the week. Delivery schedules also allow you to specify that messages be stored during certain times and delivered all at once at the end of those times.

• Regular. You may choose which days of the week, or which times of the day, AirNote messages will be sent to your wireless device and/or email. For example, you may send messages to your wireless device only during workday hours. Delivery schedules allow you to store messages during a specified time and send them all to your wireless device at the end of that time.

• Temporary. You may set temporary delivery schedules to override your normal one, when you know ahead of time your schedule will be different. For example if you are planing airline travel, store messages next Thursday from 10:00 - 2:00 while you are traveling at 24,000 feet, and then send all of your stored AirNote messages at 2:00 when you've landed at your destination.

Forwarding your business or personal email to your wireless device

Many email systems allow you to forward all copies of incoming mail to another Internet address and also keep a copy locally on your mail server. We refer to this as forking your email. If your mail system enables you to fork your email to your AirNote address then you can use our website to setup Filters or Advanced Rules to control the message traffic you receive on your wireless device. If you do fork your email you need to turn off AirNote Acknowledgments, and take out your email forwarding address from your AirNote profile, otherwise you could put yourself in an email loop. If you have questions about how to implement this send us an email at support@AirNote.net or Click here for additional information on Email Forwarding.


[Updated October 22, 1998]