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  • From: Jason Laughlin <jason AT jasonlaughlin.com>
  • To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Sending email via RR when away from home
  • Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 13:32:33 -0500


Actually, RR now offers dial-up service in certain areas. It's free thru the
end of the
year, then it'll be free for the first 10 hours of usage. I used it recently
on a trip to
San Diego. They've still got some bugs to work out of the system, of course
(some numbers
wouldn't connect, properly, others would allow a connection, then assign an
invalid IP),
but it's a reasonable solution.

For more info:
http://help.rr.com/getpage.asp?/asp/dial_access_help_topic.asp

Jason

Ron Thigpen wrote:

> 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?
>
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