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General Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: bMindful on March 09, 2004, 01:39:38 pm

Title: Best way to send mail in foreign hotspot
Post by: bMindful on March 09, 2004, 01:39:38 pm

Hi all,

WHat\'s the best way to send mail when I\'m beyond my SMTP\'s approved network? Such as roaming hotspots. Am I missing something.

I assume sendmail or qmail is too big for a Z. Is there any easy way to send mail directly off a Z, or????

I\'d rather not use webmail to send each mail

Thanks!

Title: Best way to send mail in foreign hotspot
Post by: V-Man on March 09, 2004, 10:22:28 pm

You may have to use a webmail service like yahoo or hotmail.  I heard that hotmail had problems, but never tried it.  Yahoomail works great.  I have the same problem.  My ISP will not allow me to send mail from any outside networks so I can\'t send personal mail from work.  Work uses an internal server that I can\'t connect to from outside the work network, so I can\'t send work mail from home.  If you find a solution, I will try it with my ISP (Cox Cable) and see if it works there.  Sorry I couldn\'t be of any help.

V-Man

Title: Best way to send mail in foreign hotspot
Post by: Tehas on March 09, 2004, 11:51:07 pm

I set up an account with HotPOP.com (free pop3 account).  Once that was setup, I added it as an account in the standard email app.

When I\'m away from home, I can get email from my ISP and then send it out using the HotPOP account.

Title: Best way to send mail in foreign hotspot
Post by: Stubear on March 10, 2004, 01:27:06 am

There is an ipk for postfix (Never got around to trying it though)

Stu

Title: Best way to send mail in foreign hotspot
Post by: bMindful on March 11, 2004, 03:03:13 pm

Great tip Tehas. I\'ve been scouring trying to find such a service.

Happy to save on the 2.5Mb postfix option