At the present, these messages are limited to the length of a single line, including the email address, roughly 65 characters. We are working on removing this limitation.
To do this, the user simply sends a message to "EMAIL", and the body of the message begins with the recpient's email address, a space, and then the text of the message. Below is what the message creation dialog looks like:
The message will be ACKed by the email server as soon as it is received, then a short time later you should receive a message from the server stating whether the delievery was successful. The message the recpient receives looks like this:
From: K4HG-5@unknown.net
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 12:22:36 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <199902081722.MAA26392@netrox.net>
Subject: APRS Message from K4HG-5
To: k4hg@tapr.org
X-Mailer: MacAPRS Ver 3.2.4
Hi Steve!
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Message received by MacAPRS IGate station K4HG-2
Located in MIAMI, FL
APRS path = K4HG-5>APM325,TCPIP*