The option I usually use at hotels is to call the hotel's help person (sometimes the front desk can actually answer this question, sometimes you need to use whatever 800 number is given) and ask what the hotel's SMTP server is. Then change the SMTP for your sending account(s) to the hotel's. Paul Berkowitz has a script that will even change the SMTP servers for whatever accounts you want, based on your location. Using that, I just have to enter the SMTP server into the script (it has a set up sort of script called Prefs) and then run the script to update all my accounts. I have my home SMTP server, with authentication, set up as "home" and when I get home from a trip I can just run the script again to get things back where they should be. For a few places I go frequently, I don't have to get the information every time, because it's all entered in Paul's neat script, so I just have to change location and run the script. Admittedly, my email may be available to someone in the hotel, but I don't do anything sensitive enough to worry about that :-). In the past, when I'd ask for the SMTP server information, the help person would often want to tell me too much or too little, but it seems as if lately they're getting more familiar with the concept and it's been easy the last few times.
-- Jan Martel in Davis, CA G4PB 15" Al; System 10.4.2 On 9/30/05 2:30 PM, "BobGir2004" wrote: > Just checked into a hotel, connected my iBook via the hotel-supplied > ethernet cable and got online and checked and downloaded my mail > using Entourage v11.2.0 and latest version of Tiger. > > However, when I try to_ send_ mail using Entourage I get this Alert: > > Error. Authentication failed because Entourage doesn't support any of > the available authentication methods. Error -17897. > > So, I logged onto Earthlink's webmail site and sent this from there. > > Am I stuck with this? I.e., able to download mail using Entourage, > but forced to log onto the Earthlink webmail site to respond to them > or are there changes I can make to Entourage. I hope not, as > it's a real pain the neck. > > Thanks, > bob -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
