On Sun, 02 Apr 2000 10:19:17 +0000, Michael L. Dawley wrote:
> On Sun, 02 Apr 2000 08:07:26 -0700, Carl Wheeley wrote:
>> Has anyone been able to send mail via Arachne and the freewwweb
>> smtp server? If yes, maybe you can help me.
>> I don't seem to have any trouble downloading email from
>> freewwweb.com with Arachne 1.50src Insight, but so far I haven't
>> been able to upload my email. Following are my settings in
>> arachne.cfg. I have tried to upload mail both after downloading
>> and before downloading.
<snipped info on settings in ARACHNE.CFG>
>> I don't know whether it's a problem, but I'm getting Arachne on
>> the Internet via a pay ISP rather than via freewwweb. It turns
>> out that freewwweb doesn't yet have a local access phone number
>> that I can use.
> Carl,
> I've been able to do it. Your arachne.cfg looks fine to me. Are
> you able to connect easily to Freewwweb.com? Sometimes I can,
> other times I can't. When I can, I surf a while, then download
> mail, look at it, then answer some. Freewwweb is not at all
> perfect, and it is believed that they might be overloaded. I
> had some slowness in the email area occasionally, but when it
> does work, it works good.
I haven't tried FreeWWWeb with Arachne yet, but I have done it with
Nettamer. I have found that SMTP only very seldom works when I connect
with the access number in Winchester, VA. When I connect with the access
number in Charlottesville, VA, SMTP with FreeWWWeb always works fine.
To me this indicates that some of their servers are overloaded while
others are not.
Sam Heywood
-- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client
