SMTP solution when on the road?

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Sgt Owens

When traveling I never know who my on-the-road ISP will be so sending mail
requires a third party SMTP. I've tried a free one but spammers destroyed
it and now that service is heavily blacklisted and useless.

I have my own website. Is there a way I can send mail from the road through
my website, or does anyone have any other creative ideas? Thanks.

Sgt Owens
 
Sgt said:
When traveling I never know who my on-the-road ISP will be so sending mail
requires a third party SMTP. I've tried a free one but spammers destroyed
it and now that service is heavily blacklisted and useless.
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Yahoo (UK, at least) have email accounts with their own POP3/SMTP
servers, which work fine for me.
 
Sgt said:
When traveling I never know who my on-the-road ISP will be so sending
mail requires a third party SMTP. I've tried a free one but spammers
destroyed it and now that service is heavily blacklisted and useless.

I have my own website. Is there a way I can send mail from the road
through my website, or does anyone have any other creative ideas?
Thanks.
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You could set uo your own mailserver to use for SMTP.
I can recommend http://www.argosoft.com/mailserver/ although i do use the
Pro version, i'm sure the freeware version is adequate for what you are
trying to do.

Ben
 
I have my own website. Is there a way I can send mail from the road through
my website, or does anyone have any other creative ideas?
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Depending on who hosts your website, you may have a smtp server
provided through that. If not, you'll have to use a free one or
install a smtp server on your computer. Or webmail.

Bear in mind that some ISPs will not allow you to send mail using
anything but their own server, if you are connected through them.
 
Sgt Owens said:
When traveling I never know who my on-the-road ISP will be so sending mail
requires a third party SMTP. I've tried a free one but spammers destroyed
it and now that service is heavily blacklisted and useless.

I have my own website. Is there a way I can send mail from the road through
my website, or does anyone have any other creative ideas? Thanks.

Sgt Owens
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You could use www.mail2web.com
with your existing account

Gmail provide SMTP,POP3 and web access for
their accounts. Gmail can also be configured to
forward replies to another email address.

Regards,

Mel.
 
Mark Carter said:
Yahoo (UK, at least) have email accounts with their own POP3/SMTP
servers, which work fine for me.
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Hotpop.com is the same. I've been using them for awhile now.

Karen....
 
Sgt said:
When traveling I never know who my on-the-road ISP will be so sending
mail requires a third party SMTP. I've tried a free one but spammers
destroyed it and now that service is heavily blacklisted and useless.

I have my own website. Is there a way I can send mail from the road
through my website, or does anyone have any other creative ideas?
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Dunno 'bout Earthlink (it appears that's your ISP), but I know of other
major ISPs that allow you to connect to their POP servers and send
through their SMTP servers while connected to the 'Net through a
different ISP. It requires setting up different accounts in your email
client, accessing special servers set up just for this purpose, and
using secure ports and authentication.

AT&T is one such ISP that I am familiar with:

http://help.att.net/docs/howto/emai..._email&platform=OSWIN2000&query=remote+access

HTH
 
Sgt said:
I have my own website. Is there a way I can send mail from the road through
my website, or does anyone have any other creative ideas? Thanks.

Sgt Owens
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Most ISP's I've worked with offer some form of web-based email(SBC,
Verizon, Wanadoo). They're slower than molasses in Winter but...w/ssl
it's pretty secure and bullet-proof. Just one thing...remember to
manually 'cc' yourself on each piece.

If I want to send from various ISP's, I set up profiles for each
although that presupposes having access to the set up (& sometimes
password) info.

Wrt "mobile smtps," I'd never heard of such a bird. Let us know when
you find one!

hth,
-Sparky
 
You could set uo your own mailserver to use for SMTP.
I can recommend http://www.argosoft.com/mailserver/ although i do
use the Pro version, i'm sure the freeware version is adequate for
what you are trying to do.
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<http://www.elbiah.de/hamster/pg/index.htm> is another one.

But I think this approach will be unreliable. As others have noted,
some ISPs will not allow SMTP or ESMTP connections to anyone but them,
and Sgt Owens will be using a variety of ISPs.

Also, some recipients' servers will not accept deliveries from
untrusted mail exchanges.
 
Sgt Owens said:
When traveling I never know who my on-the-road ISP will be so sending
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Are you positive of this? Your ISP should let you use their smtp server
with smtp authentication over other networks using your email address and
password to authenticate. It seems that your ISP is Earthlink. It would be
the limit of stupidity if *they* didn't provide this very basic service.

Karen
http://scootgirl.com/
 
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