RE: [IMail Forum] Forwarding mail to nextel phone

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Scott,

Thanks for the help.  After Daniel's comment I did some testing of my own.
I realized he was absolutely right, in that Outlook sticks the forward info
in the body of a message you reply to or forward.  I can't figure out how to
make Outlook *not* do that!

Therefore, I have concluded that I/we can't have our cake and eat it too.
In other words, using Outlook's rule and checking/unchecking is great in
that I can decide when I want forwards on, however the forward header info
in the body puts the msg over the 120char limit so I don't get the guts of
the msg.  If I use Imail's rule, things should work fine, however I will get
*all* mail to the phone, much of it a waste as I've already seen it in
Outlook.

Bottom line is that there is no good solution for this issue, just a couple
ways to do it, both of which suck for my specific need.  Basically, you are
right about the stripping of the header by the phone, but when the forward
comes from Outlook with the forward info in the body, the phone thinks its
part of the message (which outlook has in fact made it).

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> > Is there any way to strip or suppress the header then on a specific
> > forward somehow?  I know I'm reaching here, but it seems that if you
> > can ONLY get the body to go through I'm in the clear.
>
> I don't think that the extra headers would be causing this
> problem.  The few cell phones I've used that have E-mail will
> automatically strip the headers (except the "From:" and
> "Subject:") and then have the body of the message.
>
> Someone had suggested that if the body was being sent as an
> attachment, that could cause the problem.  If it's one of those
> hideous Yahoo Mail deals where you don't get a real E-mail, you
> just get a blank E-mail with another E-mail attached to it, that
> would cause the problem (since I'm sure the cell phone E-mail
> interface wouldn't send the attachment).
>
> Taking a look at your .MBX file might give you some clues.  The
> .MBX file shows the real E-mail, including all the headers,
> attachments, and whatnot.  If that looks normal, the next step
> would probably be to talk to nextel and see why they might leave
> the body blank.
>
> For those that are curious, I just got a Suncom (division of or
> partnered with AT&T) cell phone that accepts E-mail
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).  They only have 1 MX record, and not
> only that, but they use their mail server is also their DNS
> server, and is *very* slow (IE, 30 seconds to respond).
>                                -Scott
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