Message-ID: <4.1.19981025094713.00951d30@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu> Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 09:47:40 -0500 From: mailto:nomad@REVOLUTIONIST.COM Subject: Re: Accessing email away from base To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
hello, I hope this helps,
If you have an ISP in Mauritius, you do not have to forward your mail to the web based address. Chances are you do not want to check the web based address in case accessing the web is expensive and slow in a smaller county like where you are going. Depending on the email client you use, Eudora, Outlook, Pegasus, you can just switch your dial up on win 95 to the new ISP dial up in Mauritius and continue using your client. If Accessing the web is cheap enough, you can forward your mail to the web based address, but chances are this needs to be done off the server, or off a UNIX box, you will have to talk to whoever admins your system to enter the FWD command. But Getting your mail is simple without forwarding your mail now to a second party address. The Internet is international, so all you need to know is your POP (point of presence) address.
Then only thing you need to understand are your SMTP address, and POP address.
For Outlook, your POP probably would be --> mailto:sshiv@mcmail.com your SMTP would be --> mcmail.com
Just make sure your dial up is changed to the new phone number of computer you dialing to in the remote location. Like setting up a new Internet account.
Or you can put a smaller version of Eudora (an email client) on small floppy disk, and fix your settings for your current email address and insert the disk in ANY computer with a connection to the Internet. Run the Program and it will get your current email anywhere you are. However if you normally get over 100 messages each day, your small floppy won't be able to handle the traffic, so make a folder on the new computer and place a copy of the floppy in it. Then run Eudora.exe .
You can download a Eudora lite version at Eudora.com
rod stubina
At 12:13 PM 10/25/98 +0300, you wrote: >Hi Friends,
>
>Please help me clarify this position. I have a specific dial-up account
>with which I access my ISP in London. I also have a web-based email
>address which could be accessible from any PCs. But I will be
>temporarily away from my base, working in Mauritius. How could I get my
>email to be diverted to my web-based email address to enable me to
>receive my messages while out of station. What is the solution? And also
>I may also have to have access to a local ISP in Mauritius.
>
>I am sure this is not the first time you have been asked this question.
>
>
>Regards
>
>Shiv
Rod Stubina
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