Retrieving email (boaty)

[tome]

We're about to cast off for a few weeks and SWMBO needs to stay in contact with her email on an occasional basis. Her email account is with NTL, but they do not have any dial-in access numbers.

I'll have data-enabled mobile phone and notebook - any ideas for a temporary solution?

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[WayneS]

you should be able to set it up if you have their Pop3 and SMTP server names, as well as you account details.

Send me a PM with you phone number and I can see if I can help.

Cheers

Wayne


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[MainlySteam]

If your normal ISP's email servor prohibits or makes difficult POP/IMAP AND SMTP access from other ISP's internet connections, which is the situation I face, then I just leave a computer running at home unattended downloading all my mail normally and then having it automatically forwarding it (Outlook and Outlook Express do that) to my cellular phone service provider's mail server (Vodafone NZ, they provide mail accounts to all their phone users). I then just access it off and send outgoing mail to that server using GPRS, but of course dial up will work too.

If your normal ISP allows access to just their POP server, as some do, then one can just connect and down load ones mail and send outgoing mail through your phone provider's SMTP server, but I understand that you are saying that your ISP does not have dial up accounts and you do not have GPRS.

At times I get 100's of Mbytes of attachments a week, etc and all seems to work even if we are away on the boat or elsewhere for 3-4 weeks. One thing to be sure of is that the computer at home is stable and that the motherboard is set (software switch usually these days) to automatically power up again after any power outage. Also your mail client should be in your startup folder to automatically start also after any power outage.

On the very occasional time the computer at home has crashed fatally I have reverted to accessing my ISP's mail servor using webmail, which is much more expensive of course, and much clunkier, but again I assume that your ISP either does not have webmail access or you do not have GPRS.

John

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[tome]

Thanks for this John

I'll try setting this up this evening with mail forwarded to my mobile (I have an email account for this which I can try). Didn't realise we could auto-forward! The advantage would be that the mails are saved on her home machine.

I'll also try connecting via the phone providers SMTP sever, although I seem to recall having some problems sending mails when I tried this in the past. Something to do with frame relays not being allowed, I think.

A few things to try, thanks again
Tom

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[tome]

I'll try some experiments this evening, thanks!

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[MainlySteam]

<<<The advantage would be that the mails are saved on her home machine>>>

When I send emails when away from home via the mobile email server I BCC them to my home ISP email address so that a file copy of sent mail ends up on the machine at home as well. As you are probably aware sending copies does not add anything worth worrying about to the data volume so doesn't cost any extra.

John

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