> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Verzonden: dinsdag 18 februari 2003 13:02 > Aan: list > Onderwerp: Irregulars Question: pop3 for free.... please?
> I just got a notice that softhome is changing allowed amount of e-mail > and storage maximum from 15 Mb and 500 messages to a miserly 6 Mb and > 150 messages. Now I could live with that. I'd simply kill the Culture. > ;o) But the bonus in this wretched deal is that I now only get to > download a maximum of 10Mb a month instead of the original 45 Mb. With > an average of over 150 messages a day, even the math challenged among us > can figure out that it simply won't work for me. <snip> > I've already been searching a while now but I really can't find any that > are pop3 and free. So if anyone has a suggestion ...<smile> You could do what I did for my backup Internet access: go to www.wanadoo.nl and sign up for a Wanadoo Free account (select "Free" under "Producten" in the menu on the left side of the screen). This will give you two POP3 e-mail accounts, with 20 MB e-mail storage each. I couldn't find anything about a limit in MB/month, but I've been using my Wanadoo Free account as a backup for my Brin-L subscription for almost two months now, and haven't had any problems with it so far, other than a "Mailbox full" problem once; but if you download your e-mail once every few days, that problem shouldn't occur. As you get *two* e-mail addresses, you can even further reduce the chance of that happening by using one address for Brin-L, and the other address for the list-whose-name-shall-not-be-spoken. Bonus: as their mailserver is physically located in The Netherlands, downloading your e-mail will also go a lot faster than through your (US-based) SoftHome account. This account is only "free" in the sense that there is no monthly fee to be paid. Wanadoo want you to access the Internet (and thus, your e-mail) by using a dial-up connection; part of what you pay to KPN Telecom will then go to Wanadoo. However, you can download your e-mail using our Cable Internet access, so it really is a totally free account. :-) Okay, there is one possible problem: I haven't yet tried to *send* e-mail from my Wanadoo Free account through our Cable Internet connection, so I don't know if that will work. Remind me to try that tonight. If that works, I'll also check if you can use a different e-mail address with a Wanadoo Free account. If *that* works as well, you can subscribe to Brin-L from the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- no extra charge. :-) Jeroen "Community Service" van Baardwijk _________________________________________________________________________ Wonderful-World-of-Brin-L Website: http://www.Brin-L.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
