Apparatus and method for distributing electronic messages to a wireless data processing device

摘要

A system for distributing electronic messages to a wireless data processing device (101) is described comprising: a dispatcher (615) to maintain a communication channel (120) with the wireless data processing device, the dispatcher comprising a short term message queue for temporarily storing e-mail messages addressed to the wireless data processing device while the dispatcher attemps to transmit the e-mail messages to the wireless data processing device; and a long term message queue for receiving the e-mail messages from the dispatcher if the dispatcher is unable to deliver the e-mail messages to the wireless data processing device (922) after a specified period of time or a specified number of attemps (918).