Email access via mobile phone

For professional users, it is really important to be able read mails while traveling. This is highly appreciated especially at spare time such as waiting at the airport, sitting on the train, etc. since it alleviates the work pressure and contributes to the improvement of quality of life of mobile workers. Unfortunately, so far there is no satisfactory solution providing emails on the mobile phones because of many issues. In this paper we present a mobile email solution based on XML Web service, which takes into account the limitations of the mobile phones. The paper starts the functional requirements captured by the UML (unified modeling language) Use cases and non-functional requirements of the mobile email access are presented. The overall architecture of the mobile email access is also described. The components and interfaces of e-mail XML Web service are explained thoroughly. Last but not least, the mail Web service client residing in the mobile phone is described in details.