Well, I have been using a script named smswebde.pl to send new mail notifications to my cell phone via sms for quite some time. This uses my web.de freemail account (which I did create just for that purpose). Recently this script stopped working and today I took the time to check why. To my surprise the freemail provider now requires to enter an additional numeric code into the send form to authenticate the sms send. The code itself is on the web page, but as gif image! Well done web.de folks, that one really surprised me. But not that I have given up, I think I will have to look at the encoded hidden fields if I can find anything that helps me to find that authentication number. I do not think that OCR on a gif file is practical in this situation.