Does anybody have any experience with the insightbb mail account when away from home? I used to forward the mail to my .mac account before I left the country. But now Insight has webmail and i wonder whether i would encounter the same problems that some of you encountered with bellsouth? I tried to call their tech support, but since John Stone is not in that Dept.anymore ,I only get assurances, no explanations. Marta To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. -Henry Ward Beecher, preacher and writer (1813-1887)
On Jul 10, 2005, at 0:02, Lee Larson wrote: > On Jul 9, 2005, at 6:58 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote: > >> Is there a way to circumvent this problem in the future - ie., is >> there >> some program which will detect my host's outgoing mail server or let >> me >> send email even though the host blocks mail.bellsouth.net. > > A well-designed hotel/motel/coffee shop system will detect outgoing > connections to port 25 and redirect them to its own SMTP server. > Unfortunately, not all are well-designed. > > If you have a .Mac account, you can use the .Mac SMTP server from > anywhere, but it wants you to use your .Mac address as the return > address on the mail. > > I've lately been using the authenticated SMTP server at Gmail. If you > have a free Gmail account, their SMTP server seems to work from nearly > anywhere. If you don't have one, let me know, and I'll send you an > invitation. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be July 26. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
