On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Ray Olszewski wrote: > Alternative four: Not really an alternative, but check harder with your > ISP. It's rare for an ISP really not to provide its customers with a way to > send and receive e-mail, and I'd think it more likely that James, or his > friend, misunderstood something the ISP said than that this ISP really > doesn't provide for e-mail the standard way. It does, probably, have some > sort of password (e.g., POP-before-SMTP) authentication, to restrict access > to the forwarder ... so the same Linux issue may arise here. These days, > some forwarders throttle connections, so you can send mail in normal, > single-user quantities, but not in the volumes that support SPAM.
Thanks for your informative response, Ray. It turned out alternative four was the answer. This outfit is not really a business venture--more of a community service-type effort. So information from them tends to be short on details and possibly conflicting in places. I reread information and decided to try out some connections to the smtp server and it worked. If anyone's interested in cheap dialup, www.freeshell.org really looks like the way to go. You have to open a shell account with them for a one-time fee of $1 (there are more expensive options that get you more features--like a $40 one-time fee for added web space, email space and extra shell functionality). Anyway, once you become a member, you can buy dialin access, almost truly unlimited (something around 700+ hrs per month), for $84 a year. By the month, it's $10, and they also have quarterly rates. Anyway, it's the best deal I've ever seen for dialup, and seems like support of a good cause, too. Give them a look if you need dialin access in the US. They also handle ISDN. Thanks, James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
