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[Lady Muck]

It depends on the security settings on the server at their end, I think. My websites are hosted with Zen. They have email addresses from which I can download to outlook but not send from there. I've got a gmail account which is fine, I can send and receive. I'm on Vodafone, but I wouldn't be surprised if the technology is similar accross all the providers.

[Robbo]

That is basicaly what I was asking, I know you can read all pop mail but I have several email addresses which I post from as I am the pro of Ipswich IWA, I have the harnser.info domain and also my BT Internet address. I also use g mail as a pop mail account for e bay etc.

I know I can receive them all on 3 but I was under the impression I can't send from them on 3 hence I am considering T Mobile and Vodafone as the prices are so similar.

 

You are correct you won't be able to send email from an ISP email addresses like BT Internet, this is because they (as in BT) only allow you to connect to there SMTP server when you are connected to the Internet with them. Most ISP's are like this. You will however still be able to connect to SMTP servers like GMail to send mail.

 

 

Under GMail you have the following settings so you can send/receive email using the address it was sent to...

 

When I receive a message sent to one of my addresses:

Reply from the same address the message was sent to.

Always reply from my default address

 

Another benefit of GMail is that it uses SSL (encryption) between them and your client, which ISP's usually do not. Useful if your using Web Hotspots.

 

Sorry if this sounds like an ad for GMail, I presume others like Yahoo have the same features.

[GUMPY]

It depends on the security settings on the server at their end, I think. My websites are hosted with Zen. They have email addresses from which I can download to outlook but not send from there. I've got a gmail account which is fine, I can send and receive. I'm on Vodafone, but I wouldn't be surprised if the technology is similar accross all the providers.

Its nothing todo with the phone system its all down to the mail providers.Most ISP used to block you from sending using SMTP mail through their servers if you were outside their domain. In recent times many have been forced ( to cut down on spam) to make you authenticate when sending mail. With some IP this means that you can now send from outside their domain.

Gmail will be fine

dont know about the .info address as dont know where its hosted

Have just looked on BT and cant see that it can be done.

The other way is to send using SMTP via the phone suppliers server I do this when on orange.

Brian if you want more info call me.

 

Julian

Edited April 12, 2008 by idleness

[Robbo]

I have a PC at home & my ISP is Plus-Net. My e-mail address is a Plus-Net address. I have just bought a laptop to use on the boat and my question is ---If I buy a USB Modem (dongle?) from T-Mobile or Vodaphone etc will I be able to use the same e-mail address for both computers? I'm not sure if this is possible but what I would like to happen is that if someone sends me an e-mail it will be received by which ever computer (home PC or boat laptop) is switched on?? Can anyone out there do that ????

 

Yes you will be able to use the same address on both Computers, if Plus-Net supports IMAP (the other connection method is POP3) I would use this. Main benefits is that your email is stored on there servers (your email client usually caches it locally for speed), this means if you send/receive/delete an email on one computer, the other computer will see the same emails, in the same folders, etc.

 

If Plus-Net doesn't have IMAP, you can enable "don't delete emails from server when I download" option in POP3 which is a very messy way of doing it and I don't recommend it. (I would use GMail to download your email from PlusNet, and then use IMAP to connect to GMail).

 

See the other posts for sending emails.

Edited April 12, 2008 by Robbo

[tosher]

Yes you will be able to use the same address on both Computers, if Plus-Net supports IMAP (the other connection method is POP3) I would use this. Main benefits is that your email is stored on there servers (your email client usually caches it locally for speed), this means if you send/receive/delete an email on one computer, the other computer will see the same emails, in the same folders, etc.

 

If Plus-Net doesn't have IMAP, you can enable "don't delete emails from server when I download" option in POP3 which is a very messy way of doing it and I don't recommend it. (I would use GMail to download your email from PlusNet, and then use IMAP to connect to GMail).

 

See the other posts for sending emails.

 

Thanks for that Robbo, I understand what you say. Afraid some of the previous post went way over my head but thanks to them anyway. tosher

[Scotty]

However, what does 3GB of downloads mean in practice and how much porn would that allow me to watch exactly?

it's about 100,000 images or 5-6 well encoded DVDs

 

Basically enough to go blind with, fill your boots!

 

I managed to use up my 3gb allowance with Three last month.

My fault, I uploaded a lot of photos which i should have compressed first, and made the mistake of using BBC's iplayer.

luckily Three send a text message to the datacard, when I reach my limit