Message-ID: <199810251545.RAA32222@linux.lisse.na> Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 17:45:07 +0200 From: Dr Eberhard W Lisse <mailto:el@LINUX.LISSE.NA> Subject: Re: Accessing email away from base To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
Shiv,In message <mailto:3632EBB6.904@mcmail.com>, Shiv Satchit writes: > 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.
For someone having had all the answers on previous occasions with regards to Internet in rural areas that very question demonstrates total and fundamental lack of understanding of the Internet.
What you do is you go to the ISP in Mauritius and tell him something like: "Hi, I am one of these high paid foreign Internet consultants here to tell your government how to run your life, can you please explain to me how to get on the Internet?"
In "Dialup Networking" create a new connection with the parameters the ISP will give you for the local dialup. In your Mail program (Eudora?) you change *NOTHING*.
And on your final report, don't forget to change all instances of Zimbabwe to Mauritius. Not the Great White Hope, eh?
el