Short Message Services (SMS) proves to be a leading wireless communication medium which can be handled and integrated easily.

With a near ubiquitous presence of the mobile phones, it forms a very important, indeed essential means by which people connect and communicate with their personal and professional network. Extending the email network to the mobile phone therefore makes imminent sense. However, most approaches to enable email access on the mobile phone have been constrained by the need for special devices and services. The SMS integration in MCS however breaks through this constraint enabling users to access their mail message through SMS and send mail messages using their SMS service. This approach therefore offers a lower cost, faster, easier way to extend the enterprise email network to include the mobile phones, with immediate benefit to productivity and responsiveness of an enterprise. The SMS integration enables the following features:

Email to SMS: Send SMS messages from your email account. Users essentially send emails which are converted to SMS and sent using either a GSM modem or an SMS Center as a gateway.

SMS Alerts: Receive SMS alerts for important email messages. Users can configure alerts to be sent to their mobile phones, based on mail filter rules, e.g. send an alert with a summary of the mail, whenever the user receives a mail from

SMS to Email: Send email message using SMS. While travelling, if a user does not have access to a PC to access the email client, he could send a small email using the SMS as a carrier.