Email SMS notification system providing enhanced charge accounting features and related methods

A communications system comprising:

• at least one wireless communications device;
• at least one electronic mail (email) server for storing email messages for said at least one wireless communications device;
• an email relay server for detecting a new email message on said at least one email server and, based thereon, sending a short message service (SMS) notification with an original SMS identifier to said at least one wireless communications device;
• and
• a wireless communications network through which said at least one wireless communications device and said email relay server communicate, said wireless communications device sending an instruction to said email relay server after receiving the SMS notification with the original SMS identifier to thereafter send any subsequent SMS notification with a different SMS identifier rather than the original SMS identifier.

An email relay server for cooperating with at least one wireless communications device and at least one electronic mail (email) server for storing email messages for the at least one wireless communications device, the email relay server comprising:

• a server interface module for detecting a new email message on the at least one email server;
• and
• a device interface module for
• sending a short message service (SMS) notification with an original SMS identifier to the at least one wireless communications device based upon detection of the new email message by said server interface module, and
• sending subsequent SMS notifications to the at least one wireless communications device with a different SMS identifier rather than the original SMS identifier based upon receiving an instruction from the at least one wireless communications device.