Re: Tiscali Broadband any observations?

On Mon, 7 Aug 2006 11:33:16 +0100, "Christopher" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


"Norman Sandland" <someone@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:44d71305@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Has anyone any experience to share on using Tiscali Broadband at £14.99. a
month. Can you access your old Email accounts - say Onetel using Outlook
Express from Tiscali Broadband connection?. What is the performance and
user support like etc.?

Norman


You should be able to access WEB based email accounts from any ISP but most
will stop you from using OE if not directly connected via their servers.


The response above is incomplete and misleading.

With Outlook Express I have not found any emails that could not be downloaded
and read just as long as you had a valid user account and password for a POP3
server no matter who owns it. And of course if the emails can be obtained by
that method, then the same credentials can be used by web mail facilities
using, say, www.mail2web.com.

Sending out emails is a different matter though when using Outlook. Usually
you are oblidged to use the SMTP server of the ISP of your active Internet
connection and your 'From' address sometimes needs to be of the format of that
ISP. In the majority of situations trying to use SMTP of another provider
simply won't work. Anything said in this paragraph does not apply to the use
of web mail.

When you leave an ISP it should be good administrative practice of the 'old'
ISP to shut down the email account, as otherwise resources are being used for
which no income is derrived by the supplier of the service.

With the desire to churn Internet connections by moving to the best deal on
offer at any given time, it really does make a lot of sense to have your own
Domain name so that your email address remains constant. If you don't know how
to go about this, a question on this newsgroup will produce a flood of
answers.

DCB
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