Electronic massaging network

A method for receiving an electronic mail message from a sender addressed to a wireless terminal at the same telephone number to which fax, pages, and voice communications may be sent, said method comprising the steps of:

• determining from a pre-stored profile for the user how to process the electronic mail message, the profile containing (1) screening information for selectively screening incoming messages based on at least one of message origin, time of day, and day of week;
• (2) routing information for transmitting the message to the user or for returning the electronic message to the sender with a short description of why delivery was unsuccessful;
• (3) and cross-media notification information for translating the electronic mail message into a paging message to be sent to a paging network and for sending a voice message notification of the electronic mail message;
• and, responsive to said determining step, causing the message to be delivered to a forwarding address different from the address of the user's wireless terminal.

The method for receiving an electronic mail message from a sender addressed to a wireless terminal at the same telephone number to which fax, pages, and voice communications may be sent, said method comprising the steps of:

• determining from a pre-stored profile for the user how to process the electronic mail message, the profile containing (1) screening information for selectively screening incoming messages based on at least one of message origin, time of day, and day of week;
• (2) routing information for transmitting the message to the user or for returning the electronic message to the sender with a short description of why delivery was unsuccessful;
• (3) and cross-media notification information for translating the electronic mail message into a paging message to be sent to a paging network and for sending a voice message notification of the electronic message;
• said determining step further comprising consulting a distribution list containing a plurality of delivery destinations, each destination having a delivery format of one of a facsimile and an electronic mail format, and
• responsive to said determining step causing the message to be delivered to the plurality of destinations from the distribution list, the message being routed to each destination in the delivery format prescribed by the distribution list.