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When the anime starts and until episode 8, they attached a cell-phone to the
phone-microwave and sent a message to that specific phone to trigger sending
D-Mails. But in episode 8

> Ruka sent a D-Mail to her mother pager

and then in episode 9

> Faris sent a D-Mail to (probably) herself

So I'm wondering if there is a plot whole somewhere in the story, or did they
figure out a way to send D-Mails from any phone to any phone?

As a side question previously it was mentioned that how they can set D-Mail's
time of Arrival:

> each second on Phone-Microwave meant an hour going back, so I'm wondering
> how did they manage to set microwave time to 87600 (10 years)?


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How did they start sending messages to other's phone?


> When the anime starts and until episode 8, they attached a cell-phone to the
> phone-microwave and sent a message to that specific phone to trigger sending
> D-Mails.

You are misunderstanding it. The microwave is required to _send_ the d-mail,
not to _receive_ it.

Basically, the d-mail functions exactly as a normal text message that you
would send to someone. The only difference (apart from the size limit) is that
when you send a normal message, it will arrive in some time _after_ being
sent. The d-mail, on the contrary, will arrive in some time _before_ being
sent. It can be sent to any phone (or a pager), the only requirement is
obviously that you need to know the phone number.

As for your side question, I didn't understand what exactly is confusing you,
can you elaborate please?


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You just send the message from one phone/pager to another one. All you need is
the microwave running and a running CRT (Cathode Ray Tube), plus the phone
number of the receiver. You configure the microwave, turn it on and wait for
the message to be sent.

Earlier in the story, they needed to connect the phone with the microwave, to
determine, which message should be affected by time-travel.

> However, Daru wrote a program, with which you could set the number and
> various different things, so it was possible to send these D-Mails without
> the need of connecting the phone to the microwave.

Regarding your time-question: Daru applied many modifications to the
microwave, so you could set any running-time. The microwave won't run the
whole 24 hours, it just needs to be set to that time.


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