System and method for pushing information from a host system to a mobile data communication device

A wireless mobile communications device associated with a first computer system identified by a first electronic address, wherein the first computer system includes a wireless redirector component for continuously redirecting messages, as they are received, from the first computer system to the wireless mobile communications device, comprising:

• a receiver for receiving a redirected message from the first computer system;
• a memory for storing the redirected message;
• a message generator for generating a reply message to the redirected message at the mobile device, wherein the reply message is addressed using the first electronic address of the first computer system as an originating address, and using a destination address;
• a transmitter for transmitting the reply message to the first computer system;
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• a redirector component for redirecting messages received at the mobile communications device to the first computer system, wherein the first computer system is a desktop computer system that causes are reply message to be redirected to the destination address.

A wireless mobile communications device associated with a first computer system having an associated first electronic address and including a wireless redirector component for redirecting messages from the first computer system to the wireless mobile communications device, comprising:

• means for receiving a redirected message from the first computer system;
• means for storing the redirected message;
• means for generating a reply message to the redirected message at the wireless mobile communications device, wherein the reply message is addressed using the first electronic address as an originating address, and using a destination address;
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• means for transmitting the reply message to the first computer system, wherein the first computer system is a desktop computer system that causes the reply message to be redirected to the destination address.