Receving email on Jaamun Service

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Once you have signed up for the Jaamun service online or via SMS, you can use your mobile to send and receive emails via SMS.

Receiving emails

Here is how a typical email on your mobile would look:

The mails would come to your phone from our service number 09773467755. You might want to store it in your contacts, since the same number would be used to reply, forward and compose emails on SMS.

The email that you receive on mobile through Jaamun Service is 480 characters long on most phones. On some older phones and specially CDMA phones you may receive email broken into 3 parts. However, most GSM networks & GSM phones support 480 character messages.

While designing Jaamun service we had two things in mind. The first was to make the service as intuitive as possible. For this reason we have used keywords that are easy to remember. For instance, as in the image above ‘F’ stands for ‘From’, ‘S’ stands for ‘Subject’ & ‘B’ stands for ‘Body of the email’.

The second objective was to overcome the limitation of characters on SMS characters while delivering information in the most readable format. As you may notice in the image, ‘@gmail.com’ becomes ‘@gmail’; ‘two’ becomes ‘2’; ‘there’ becomes ‘der’ and so on and so forth. At the same time we have also ensured that meaning of the mail does not get altered in the process of ‘SMS compression’ and hence we only replace words if the context is absolutely clear.

You can also see that the email begins with a number, 12 in this case. This number is important to our service. As you would find in out subsequent posts, the number refers to the email and is used when the user replies to or forwards the email. The numbers go from 0 to 99 before being re-set to 0.

Do let us know what you think about this format for receiving emails.

Cheers!