Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 16:17:44 -0500
Reply-To: David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From: David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject: Re: E-mail retrieving
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At 03:13 PM 1/19/2001, Zoltan wrote:
>I am sure there is a way to get into my emails if I am at an other
>computer. I just don't know it how. Anyone?
>Zoltan
This is easier than it looks. Honest. Well, at least if you've done it a
few times. The first time might be pretty rough if you don't have an
aptitude for this. But this is the general-purpose method for retrieving
regular, i.e. non-web-based email from anywhere in the universe that has an
Internet connection. Unfortunately the details depend on what mail program
is available on the machine you're going to be using.
david
You have to know the name or IP address of your mail server (for example
popd.ix.netcom.com or pop01.ny.us.ibm.net or 24.10.232.8) and your user
name and password there (the same as your regular login for your ISP unless
you've intentionally changed it. This info should be in your mailer
already, except for the password -- but if it just says "mail" that's an
alias and you have to discover what it means by going to a command prompt
and uttering "ping mail" (no quotes, and for mail substitute whatever your
particular alias is). This will return an IP number you can use -- but if
your mail suddenly stops working from the other machine, it might be that
they moved your POP server to a different address. Fix is to get somebody
to ping mail again from your machine and tell you the new IP number.
Plug those into whatever mail program you have access to, and (assuming you
want the mail to pile up so that you can get it all from your regular
machine) tell the program to "leave mail on server" or "don't delete mail
from server" or whatever. Also a good idea to tell it not to remember your
password, in case you forget to dismantle this arrangement when you leave.
To *send* mail you will need the name of an SMTP server. Probably the only
one that will work for you will be the one normally used by the person
whose Internet account you are using, which you should be able to find in
their user info already in the mailer. Look for "outgoing mail server"
For the mutual convenience of both you and the owner of the machine, it
would be good to set up filter(s) so that all your mail doesn't get dumped
into the main Inbox.
David Beierl - Providence, RI
http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
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