On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 09:18:12 -0500, Michael Chaney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I've done to get around this is two-fold: [snipped]
I agree that this is the best solution for problems such as being mobile, but it doesn't solve the problem of those who are using pre-paid internet access (majority of us here in the Philippines use prepaid internet access. This works by buying cards of certain denomaniations that provides certain number of hours of access, and scratch the somewhere at the back of the card to reveal the user name and password. I bet these things also exists in other "third world countries.") Of course, this would mean that I have to host the email account somewhere else. Anyway, I think majority of users here in the country use web based email accounts like Yahoo and Hotmail, so this won't be much of a problem. It only becomes a problem for those of us who are using POP3/IMAP accounts hosted somewhere outside the ISP where we can only use POP3/IMAP, but not SMTP (an example of which is the free Fastmail IMAP account, where they provide free IMAP access but you have to use you ISP's smtp server to send outgoing mail). You might say "why not pay for the service to use Fastmail's SMTP server", but the problem is, many people here can't afford to pay that amount, or they don't have access to a payment method that is accepted, like credit cards (the credit card problem is not really that much of a problem these days, but it was hard to get one 5 years ago). So basically, you have no other choice but to relay your mail through your ISP and "spoof" the email header. -- Gideon N. Guillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Take back the web! Download Firefox Today! http://getfirefox.com -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
