Can I make a suggestion thatb our Gurus give a talk on getting on
line from internet cafes etc. It is not vas easy as it sounds :-(
I travel a lot, and I use AT&T global (http://www.attbusiness.net/)
to connect my 17" PB to the net.
AT&T global gives me local numbers in countries all over the world,
and special numbers for regional areas. Unlike AT&T global many ISPs
use a thing called iPASS to connect you to other ISPs around the
world, but you pay a premium for the overseas connection. Also, you
need to run the iPASS software to make a connection. This works fine
for PCs, but they ported this to the mac using Applescript. Back in
2002, using the OS9 version, this took several minutes to connect
you, and often the ISP timed out first...
I never use internet cafe's, because I want to use Eudora on my own
machine. Once I connect through ATT global, I can easily use Eudora
for receiving mail, because it is still pointing to my normal email
server. The problem is with sending mail. Because of spam issues,
most SMTP servers do not allow mail to be sent when it did not
originate on the home network, where the SMTP server lives.
Previously, I had to have a Eudora setup for each of my ISP
environments, which specified the ISP's own SMTP server. This was a
pain, and when I got to conferences with airport access (like I did
last week), then I couldn't send any email.
However, because OSX has unix under the hood, I was able last week to
set up my own machine to act as an SMTP server, by following the
instructions at:
http://www.reitter-it-media.de/software/osxpostfix.html
You only have to change two files, but BE CAREFUL if you don't know
anything about unix.
Hope this helps,
Rob
PS A common misconception is that people need a different email
address to travel overseas. This is not true. You *do* need a local
ISP connection, but once you're on the net, you can access your
normal email account.
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