Message-ID: <199810251449.JAA05405@cti06.citenet.net> Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 09:41:37 -0400 From: "George(s) Lessard" <mailto:media@citenet.net> Subject: Re: Accessing email away from base To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
Dear Shiv Satchit, on 25 Oct 98, I read your e-mail called "Re: Accessing email away from base" :If you are going with a laptop (or have personal access to someone elses private computer) Pegasus Mail (a free downloadable e-mail client) allows one to "pick-up" one's mail from any number of e-mail accounts... using Pegasus Mail would allow you to access your London e-mail account from any ISP around the world....
If you find a friend with access in Mauritius who uses Pegasus Mail.... you can do that from that computer....
OR...
Ask you London ISP to forward you mail to you web based e-mail address... this works quite well if you use an "internet cafe"... and there is an internet cafe site that lists them around the world http://www.netcafeguide.com/
which reports the following
Mauritius Cybercafe Manhatten Centre, Curepipe Mauritius MUR20 for 15 minutes
Most of these web-based e-mail services allow you to check your POP-email or at the cyber cafe site you can also... Check your POP-email directly on the web - no need for email clients or hotmail.com http://www.netcafeguide.com/mail/
and from DEVMEDIA here are some tips on travelling and connecting....
7) Tips for getting connected to Email/Internet while working in other countries - if you find yourself working in another country there are numerous ways to stay connected to your email account at your home base. There are very few countries left where one of these techniques will not work. International Internet services such as Compuserve are certainly an option, but can be expensive and certainly not as much fun as some of the other methods. List of Topics: a) Telnet b) "POP" email - borrowing a user ID and password c) "POP" email - getting a temporary account overseas d) Connecting to local phone lines/jacks e) Internet providers in Africa
a) Telnet - check with your current Internet provider to see if they support "telnet" - if they do, then you can borrow any computer that is connected to the Internet and run telnet software to connect directly to your Internet provider's computer server. You can check your mail from virtually anywhere in the world - this might work slowly in some developing countries where Internet connections are slow, but I find that it works about 75% of the time. Your Internet provider or virtually any "Internet geek" can show you how to use telnet - learn how to use it before you go. Places to find computers connected to the Internet include: cybercafes, university & college libraries, donor agencies, NGOs, computer stores & Internet providers, homes of expatriates with long-term overseas postings. Most computers come already loaded with telnet software - to find the software, simply search the hard-drive for the "telnet" application, and make sure you are connected to the Internet on the computer you are using.
b) "POP" email - borrowing a user ID and password. This is great for laptop users. If you are using email software such as Microsoft Mail or NetScape Mail or Eudora, when you set up the software you typed in the address for grabbing your mail from your Internet provider's "POP" mail server. If you use a laptop, you can connect to virtually any Internet provider in the world and grab your mail from your home Internet provider's mail server without changing your email software settings. Thus using your laptop, you can "borrow" someone else's dialup user name and password to connect to an Internet provider in Zimbabwe (for example) and use that account to grab your mail, as you normally do at home. If you do not have a laptop, you can borrow someone's computer, their Internet account AND their email software to do this too, but you will have to go into their email software and change the address of their mail server to the address of your home mail server (for both sending and receiving mail). If you change someone's settings, be kind and remember to change things back to the way they were originally set when you are done.
c) "POP" email - getting a temporary account overseas. Also great for laptop users. You can arrange with most Internet providers to get temporary Internet accounts in overseas locations. Costs vary between free to about $50 U.S. per month, depending on your negotiation skills and charm. For example, I work in Egypt quite frequently and have a project Internet account with Internet Egypt (http://www.internetegypt.com) that I share with a few other people. When I get to Egypt I use my dialup software to dial-into the Internet Egypt account, hit my receive mail button on my email software and quickly grab my mail from the University of Guelph in Canada. Using temporary accounts with various Internet providers I have been able to do the same thing in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Senegal, Tunisia, Chile, Mexico, the Philippines, Italy, and Florida. You can find Internet providers in various countries with simple web searches, contact them by email ahead of time and have everything setup to get connected as soon as you hit the ground. You can also use the local phone book to call Internet providers when you arrive somewhere to get your temporary account. Sometimes you have to show up at their office with your laptop and/or a handful of local currency. If you work in rural areas, as I do, you may have to dial long distance within a country in order to reach the Internet provider in the nearest urban centre.
d) Connecting to local phone lines/jacks. If you plan to use the local telephone system for a dial-up connection from your laptop to a local Internet provider (see above), it might be worthwhile to purchase a variety of telephone connectors and/or some alligator clips, small screwdrivers and a pocket knife to clip into a bare phone wire. Don't assume that your phone jack will work everywhere - it won't!!. Sometimes you might find yourself having to either bare the phone wires coming out of the wall, or dismantle the telephone to get access to a way to clip your alligator clips to the phone lines (this might cause some hotel cleaning staff to panic and complain to managers, but you can usually put everything back together O.K. and use your negotiation skills and charm to calm nervous hotel staff). If you clip into bare wires, 9 times out of 10 you will want to connect the red and green wires - if that doesn't work, keep trying various combinations until you hear a dial-tone (it helps to make sure that your modem and computer are setup so that you can actually hear a dial-tone). If you have the money to rent a cellular phone where you are staying, you might inquire about adding a computer adapter to your phone package - I haven't tried this but I've seen others do it, especially in places like Cairo and Manila where cellular phones are as common as cars.
e) Internet providers in Africa. Mike Jensen has been kind enough to maintain an up-to-date list of Internet providers (and a great deal of other African connectivity information) on his web site: "African Internet Connectivity" - http://demiurge.wn.apc.org:80/africa/ If you are planning to go to a particular African country and want to try getting an Internet account, you can use this site to contact individual Internet providers in virtually every urban centre except in Comores, Congo-Brazza, Eritrea, Libya, and Somalia.
DEVMEDIA's URL is http://www.devmedia.org
> 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
>
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