Tina,

Not sure I'm totally understanding, but I'll give it a shot anyway.  

If you access your email using the bn and have your directory of services entry 
set up to dial one of the earthlink access numbers, you're accessing 
earthlink from within it's own network just as you would if you were using your 
dialup account from your pc.  

In this case you may not need authentication although I've heard that earthlink 
is supposed to start requiring authentication for all message traffic sent over 
their network.  Don't know if this has been put into effect though.  

If, on the otherhand, you're accessing your earthlink using  a directory of 
services entry containing a number such as *99# or some other number that isn't 
actually a 7-digit phone number, you are most likely accessing earthlink from 
outside of the earthlink network.  In that case, you definitely need 
authentication in order to send email.  You don't need it for receiving email 
from earthlink, just sending.

Hope this helps.

Don

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 20:43:24 -0700, tina wrote:

Hi Don, so would doing e-mail in my cell phone count as being outside the 
network even though i didn't have problems using my last cell phone in fact the 
cells
have worked better for me more reliably than my onboard modem which for example
I had to try to log on several times this morning i finally got my mail, but 
doing wirelessly has always worked better for some reason than my landline has 
but 
since I usually use my pc at home so haven't worried much about it and because 
I don't use land lines much and wonder if it's my line because the last time 
I used another line i don't think I had a problem.

> ----- Original Message -----
>From: "Don Bishop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected]
>Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 10:01:10 -0700
>Subject: Re: [Braillenote] authintication

>Just to clarify a bit here.  Earthlink, along with other providers, require 
>authentication for those sending outgoing mail, especially those  accessing an
>earthlink account from outside the actual earthlink network such as you would 
>be doing if you log into your email from a gprs network.

>This does not impact the receiving of email from their pop3 servers.

>To make this work, you need to use an authentication server.  So, you have to 
>change the standard earthlink smtp server for example, the standard smtp
>server for earthlink is smtp.earthlink.net and if you are in a situation where 
>you need to use authentication, you would change the server to
>smtpauth.earthlink.net  and, in the case of the braillenote, set the 
>authentication option in the directory of services to yes.

>Other providers also do this, and ssome require it even if you are sending 
>directly from  within their own network.

>In all the cases I've tested, the authentication support provided by the 
>braillenote work just fine.

>Don

>On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 20:13:26 +1200, Dean Jackson wrote:


>Hello Stacey,

>At this time, KeyMail which is the BrailleNote's email program, does not
>support this feature.  However, this is a possibility when it comes time to
>enhance the email client.

>I'll log it in the database when I go back to the office tomorrow to ensure
>this suggestion is not forgotten and always there for review by the
>Development team.

>Dean Jackson
>Pulse Data International
>Christchurch
>New Zealand.



>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Stacey Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected]
>Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 4:52 PM
>Subject: [Braillenote] authintication


>> Hi all,
>> I don't have a vnqt yet, but I have a very important question.  Hopefully
>,jona?an or someone else f pdi can answer this.  Does the braille note
>product line support pop3 servers that require authintication? I don't even
>know what this is, but my isp is going 6start using it.
>> Thanks,
>> Stacey


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