Retrieve E-Mail Without a PC

Dave Andrews

Millennia's Email Reader lets you dial your desktop PC and listen to your e-mail using a plain old telephone instead of downloading your messages to a notebook PC. Once you install Email Reader on a Win 95 PC equipped with a 75-MHz or faster Pentium and a voice modem (I used one from Boca Research), you can dial in using a telephone or cellular and listen to your e-mail.

Email Reader lets you manage your mail by pressing certain keys on your touch-tone phone or by actually speaking to the computer. Whether using touch-tones or voice, you can tell the program to list, mark as read or unread, play, or perform other opera tions on messages. The program supports Microsoft Exchange, Netscape, Eudora, and other POP3 Internet e-mail reader software.

I think Email Reader is probably best for someone who gets a low number of messages per day or who wants to monitor e-mail while away for a day or so: It can be aggravating listening to even just the headers of 20 or 30 new messages over the phone. In high-volume scenarios, Email Reader would work best if used with e-mail programs that support rules-based processing. The current Email Reader is a stand-alone program, but a network version is planned, as are other mail processing modules, so we'll monitor this telephony category as it matures.

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Where to Find

Email Reader...................$89.95

Millennia Software
Saratoga, CA
Phone:    (888) 362-4573
Phone:    (408) 867-8900
Internet: 
http://www.msw.com

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PC-less E-Mail Retrieval

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