A process of creating a resource database storing message service information,
storing a message in the portable wireless telephone without establishing a voice
or data channel with the message storage system, receiving in the portable wireless
telephone the message service information from the resource database via a data
channel between the portable wireless telephone and the resource database, processing
a message responsive to the message service information via a data channel between
the portable wireless telephone and the message storage system according to the
message service information, and updating the message service information in the
resource database by the message storage system according to the processing via
a data channel between the resource database and the message storage system. Further,
a computer system programmed to perform the process.