Better question yet, why use ANY ISP-provided mail? If/when you change ISPs, you'll either have to contact everyone you know to tell them about the new address, pay to keep your old address, or lose contact. There are plenty free and semi-free mail hosting services around. Gmail comes to just about everyone's mind.
Petri Laihonen wrote: > Why use cox mail at all? > > Only couple months after signing up with cox I realized that the mail > service (any direction) was not trustworthy. Especially I did not want > to lose any important business mail, so I decided to start using my > own mail server entirely. I've had to change my mailing preferences > only once when cox started blocking port 25. Now I just tunnel it > through SSH directly to my server. (additional advantage with > tunneling outgoing mail with SSH is that I don't have to worry about > mail sniffing in the public places either....until SSH2 becomes > vulnerable) > > Petri > > willhill wrote: >> The only thing that makes a difference is the IP address in the message >> body. >> I tried sending it here and I tried sending it to the CCCC general list and >> I >> tried sending it to a friend and I tried sending it to two addresses from >> the >> debian-people mailing list. Replacing the numeric address in the body of >> the >> message allowed me to get the same mesage through to my friend today. It's >> something that I've been doing to share with my family, the BRLUG and the >> CCCC mail list. >> >> Really, I'm using plain text messages sent by Kmail through Cox's smtp >> servers. Nothing special or fancy. It's a text body email filter. >> >> >> On Tuesday 29 January 2008 1:20 pm, Scott Harney wrote: >> >>> Was the "To:" field in your email "To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" or to a >>> DNS-registered name, eg "To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
