Hi, On 27 Apr 2004 at 11:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke, thus:
> This summer, I'll be interning in Washington, DC and obviously I'm not > taking my desktop with me, so I'm going to be learning to do email on my > Braille Note 32. I planned on using my university email account (I only use > this AOL account for listservs...my primary address is @umn.edu), but I > recently found out that the University of Minnesota doesn't have any DC > dial-up numbers. Grrr. So...is there anything I can do? Can I check hotmail > or yahoo on my BN? I don't suppose you can check AOL from a Braille Note? Of those you have listed, only Yahoo seems plausible - I understood they offer POP3 and SMTP once upon a time, though whether or not this is still true, I don't know. Someone else may be able to fill you in on that. Regarding your university account - there is no reason you can't use this if your university provides the appropriate services from any point on the internet. Ask the network administrators or help desks whether or not you can connect, without SSL security, to their POP3 server. If yes, you can at least receive mail by dialling in with any local service provider in Washington. Confirm this with them. Next, ask if they support SMTP authentication or POP-Before-SMTP authentication. If they do, you can send mail, too, and you're all set - all you need now is a dialup local to Washington, and I'll leave others to help you find this. If for some reason the plan failed, then: 1. If - and this aint likely - they won't let you use their POP3 service, go looking for another free account. There's loads out there, Jonathan mentioned one. runbox.com is another, mailandnews.com, myrealbox.com ... and loads others. 2. If SMTP is the issue, some services will let you sign up for authenticated SMTP service. Perhaps they will still give you a complete package with POP3 and SMTP and a new email address, as is the case for myrealbox.com (a new one I'd recommend - Novell's groupwise testing, and its users are its testers, so there's no advertising), but usually you now have the option of dialling in wherever you want and then using that specific SMTP server with authentication. You can keep your uni account and simply relay through that host. If such a service doesn't find you in time, let me know and I'll arrange an account on my home mail system which will let you relay with your BrailleNote. The comprehensive free email address reference is http://www.emailaddresses.com/ . Cheers, Sabahattin -- Thought for the day: The only thing that hurts more than paying income tax is not having to pay income tax. Latest PGP Public key blocks? Send any mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sabahattin Gucukoglu Phone: +44 (0)20 7,502-1615 Mobile: +44 (0)7986 053399 http://www.sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/ Email/MSN: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
