34. The document delivery method of claim 29 further comprising exchanging a handshake between a phone mail terminal and a remote server.
29. A document delivery method comprising: sensing presence of a document to be scanned; scanning the document in response to the document presence sensing; and, transmitting the scanned document telephonically over a telephone network to a predetermined fixed telephone number; receiving the document in an envelope shaped input slot, wherein the sensing of the presence of a document to be scanned comprises sensing the presence of the document in the envelope shaped slot.