Patent ID: 7904099

Claim:
A method of handling an outgoing message in a communication device, said method comprising: presenting a message composition interface for creating a being-composed message wherein said message is formatted for an email message handling service; determining that said being-composed message comprises a first destination address for said email message handling service; determining that said being-composed message comprises a second Short Messaging Service (SMS) destination address in an addressing field; determining whether a device associated with said SMS destination address is capable of concatenating multiple SMS message payloads; during composition of said being-composed message, displaying a marker in said message composition interface to indicate a point in said being-composed message at which a character limit has been met if said device associated with said SMS destination address is incapable of said concatenating; permitting editing of said being-composed message while displaying said marker; passing said message to a client application on said communication device for said SMS with an indication of said second destination address; and transmitting said being-composed message as a macro SMS message where the device associated with said SMS destination address is capable of said concatenating, or, as multiple SMS message payloads where the device associated with said SMS destination address is not capable of said concatenating, said transmitting as multiple SMS message payloads comprising formulating a first SMS message based on a first SMS message payload and said second SMS destination address and formulating a second SMS message based on a second SMS message payload and said second SMS destination address.