[windows2000] Re: OT: email problem while traveling
- From: "David Spanne" <werenomads@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 13:35:19 -0600 (CST)
I need a bit more info, but here are a few assumptions.
Compuserve is used as ISP because of world wide presence, and relatively
cheap, but are not using its email (propietary, not POP/SMTP?) and
you/they want to stay with Compuserve. Users are also using a local ISP
for connectivity and/or POP/SMTP accounts, and they work fine when
connecting with that ISP. Compuserve is blocking access to the SMTP of
the local ISP, as part of a way of preventing spoofing/bouncing or other
means of improper mail use (my ISP does this as well, getting to be common
practice in that business).
As a result, you will either need to use a web interface for email, or
have an email host that has an alternate port(s) for SMTP to bypass the
default port 25 used by SMTP and blocked by many ISPs. Ease of support,
and access from any internet connected PC would lean me towards web
interface.
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/E-mail/Free/Web-Based/
There are hundreds available, and many are free, with added services for
$. Yahoo!, Hotmail, Lycos, Mail.com are some of the most well known, and
each provide the ability to pull mail from POP accounts. For example,
Yahoo! will host your domain for $ and then you can create email addresses
and use their web mail interface, and you can buy as much storage space
for the web mail accounts as you want, you can also have POP/SMTP access
to get mail off their servers for archiving. FuseMail.com is great for
pulling from multiple accounts, but I think its kind of a beta of a
particular technology, so its future is up in the air.
Does this business have it's own domain name? If so, is it hosted by a
third party? If not, they should consider getting one, and having it
hosted.
http://reviews.cnet.com/2001-6028-0.html
www.webhostdir.com
www.webhostdir.com
webhosts.thelist.com
My wife has a small business and web/mail hosting of her domain name.
$7.50 month when paid annually, $11.50 monthly etc. Up to 500 POP/SMTP
accounts (alternate port for SMTP available, limitted by 1000MB total
storage limit) Bandwidth 50GB monthly ETC. She is not a roadwarrior, so
prefers local email client.
After all this, this may not be the direction you want to head. Tell me
what your thinking, and hopefully I can help you find what you need.
David
----- Original Message -----
> Thanks for the replies. Can those ideas you're discussing be accessed
> using
> Compuserve from China? Will this solve the "not a relay" problem when
> sending from China?
>
> David, could you point me in the right direction regarding email hosting?
> I'm not trying to be lazy, I'm just hoping you have some experience with
> these services and can show me a good one.
>
> Art
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Spanne" <werenomads@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 3:46 PM
> Subject: [windows2000] Re: OT: email problem while traveling
>
>
>> Understood, but I'm not advising they use "the web interface" of the
>> ISP.
>> They may have to put their existing email that they probably have in a
>> PST
>> (since they are using Outlook for POP/SMTP) back on to a server.
>> My simple assumption is that for a "small company" with 3 road warriors,
>> its cheaper to use an email hosting service of one type or another,
>> rather
>> than set up your own email servers (any type) or mess with VPN or the
>> other solutions mentioned. There are so many options available for
>> services to host your email in one way or another, that I can't imagine
>> a
>> solution could not be found that is much simpler and cheaper than
>> setting
>> up a server.
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> > I could be mistaken, but I believe that the reason they didn't want to
> use
>> > the web interface that the ISP provided was because they already had
> mail
>> > in
>> > Outlook that they needed to have access to with their
>> incoming/outgoing
>> > mail.
>> >
>> > Drew
>> >
>>
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