In article ,
Gunner wrote:
On 14 Dec 2004 16:13:58 -0500, (DoN. Nichols)
wrote:

In article ,
Gunner wrote:
On 14 Dec 2004 01:05:58 -0500, (DoN. Nichols)
wrote:


So -- I suspect the net congestion, and it may well clear up
next time you try. (Or it may not, and there is nothing that I can do
about it.

[ ... ]

Get a free www.myway.com email address. Or even a hotmail one (also
free) 250 megs of storage, Great spam blockers, 10 meg email download
size limits for big attachments

Wayne has a web-based mail service from his IPS, along with the
POP connected Agent. It appears to be a problem with the POP
connection, *and* (sometimes) with incoming mail.

Yes and? You lost me somewhere above and below. Neither of you can go
to a website and log in, checking your email thats contained on their
server? No POP or SMTP required.

Wayne can, and I mentioned that he h ad a web-based mail service
from his ISP. I can't, because the mail is stored on my own systems,
and I will not run a web-based server to (possibly) expose my e-mail to
others, when I have no need of it.

The SMTP gets the mail from his ISP's mail server to my mail
server (one of my machines in my house) -- Or doesn't, when his mail
server thinks that an attempt at unauthorized relaying is being made. :-)

Another thing that can block things at my end is if the IP
address or the envelope sender (usually shows up as "Return-Path: " in
the headers) happens to be in one of my anti-spam blocklists. But that
is checked, and is not the problem here.

And you can check your email from any browser anytime, anyplace.

I, personally, can't stand to use a web-based mail interface (or
for that matter to use a web based news poster), and I run my own mail
server, so deliveries are automatic to my mailbox on my systems,
whenever they come in.

Enjoy,
DoN.

Sometimes when all else fails, those online mail services such as
hotmail work when nothing else does, and provides a safe cutout.

The spammers think so, as well. There are currently 4893
hotmail addresses which have been used to send me spam (most of them
forgeries, but some real) which are in my "envelope sender" blocklist. A
set of typical "usernames" from that blocklist includes:

zulu20042004
zumejempark
zupnhaokwppmch
zuu_finan4
zvrurku
zwdrkngni
zwjmmroyev
zwsfof
zwvrl526w
zwvtrvztey
zxbbl
zxtqotprw

By contrast, there are only 3460 msn entries in the blocklist,
and only 397 rr.com ones.

Enjoy,
DoN.


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