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[Ron Thigpen <rthigpen AT nc.rr.com>]

Getting to your inbound mail (hosted by your ISPs POP3 or IMAP server) 
should work just fine.  Just set it up the same as you would from home.

Sending mail through an outbound relay (the SMTP server) is generally 
trickier as you move about.  Most dial-up ISPs try to prevent spammers 
from using their SMTP servers by checking that the IP address of the 
sender is in the block of addresses that they assign to a customer when 
they dial in.  When you are on the road, you won't have an IP that they 
will allow.

RoadRunner presumably needs to work a bit differently, as they are a 
hardwired ISP and you don't have the option of dialing in when on the 
road.  Roadrunner's local SMTP server (smtp-server.nc.rr.com) is 
configured to use username:password authentication.  No matter where you 
are on the network, you should be able to send outbound messages by 
configuring my mail client to use auth, setting your username (mail 
account PID), and responding to the password challenge when you send the 
first message in a mail client session.

Mail client software support and behavior will, naturally, vary.  I've 
used this setup  with NC 4.7x and Moz 0.9.6 mail, and it works just 
fine.  This assuming  that the RR.com servers are alive and responding...

--rt


art2mis AT nc.rr.com wrote:

> It seems to me that recently, someone explained how this might be achieved - 
> without necessarily setting up our own POP3 server.  As I travel all the 
> time, I'd really love to be able to send and respond to emails using my 
> RoadRunner account when I'm not actually connected to RoadRunner.  Can anyone 
> enlighten me how this may be done?