Re: OT?? : VDQ portability

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On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Beartooth wrote:


Suppose I get a thumb drive all set up to run either pine or pc-pine, or
maybe both. I can walk up to any unoccupied machine in town, put my drive
in a USB port, and do my email. My address is at swva.net, and my
password is for there; and all of town is in its territory (Southwest
Virginia, or part of it). (Verizon, Comcast, and several other smaller
ones overlap.)

Suppose I now go to Michigan, or Mississippi, or Montana, and try it
there. The provider that machine connects to may be using exactly the
same hard- and software as swva.net (or of course it may not). Will it
automatically honor my swva userid and password?? Or will I have to have
local ones -- and an account with a local provider attached to them --
there, too?

You should be able to view your email pretty much anywhere in the world. Sending, however, may present a problem.

1. The ISP may block access to any SMTP server other than its own.
2. Your ISP may block (in fact it probably does) access to its SMTP servers from a "foreign" ISP.

The workaround is to find an email provider with authenticated SMTP, preferably on a port other than 25. GMail and Fastmail fit the bill (Fastmail allows you to use port 26).

I encountered this problem at a Boy Scout camp I attended with my son last week. I was using GMail, so I had no issues. Many others were having this very issue. Either I wasn't explaining the problem well, or they weren't technical enough to understand it. One guy said I didn't know what I was talking about and another suggested I just didn't want to be helpful and explain how I was doing it.

John
- -- John Mayson <john@xxxxxxxxx>
Austin, Texas, USA

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