> On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Boanne Lorraine wrote:
>> Anyway, I have just spent several very frustrating hours looking
>> for a free email service that can be accessed via pop3/SMTP with
>> NetTamer... You know something that doesn't require java srcipt,
>> frames, cookies, all the latest stupid HTML tricks, and a hard
>> drive the size of the state of Texas, and all the latest
>> windows-M$ bullfeathers....
Casper Gielen replied:
> www.subdimension.com gives free pop3/smtp, creatable with lynx.
> Their webbased email doesn't work. CJB has webbased email that
> works with lynx.
Hello Folks:
Today I accessed http://www.subdimension.com with Bobcat/Lynx and set up
an account for myself there. I was able to go through the entire signup
procedure and filled out the form and submitted it by using only Bobcat/
Lynx. I would suppose this site would work with NetTamer too. I know
that I was successful in creating the account. I sent a test message to
myself addressed to my newly created email address at "subdimension.com".
I downloaded my test message a few minutes later.
Their site does not provide SMTP access. You must send messages through
your own or somebody else's ISP's smtp server. You can retrieve messages
addressed to you at "subdimension.com" from their POP3 server by using an
internet email client that you have configured and set up in such a way so
that your POP3 server is specified as theirs (mail.subdimension.com) and your
POP3 password and POP3 username are specified as those that you had requested
during the signup procedure. The website does not provide anyone with the
capability of sending anonymous messages because you have to send messages
through an smtp server that must be logged into by a person to whom a password
has been assigned. The user name and smtp server are identified in the
message headers. Of course you may request in the body of your message that
the recipient should reply to you at your address at "subdimension.com" This
kind of email system offers a certain advantage over using a "web-based" email
system. When you use a "web-based" email system you will spend a lot of time
in connecting with the site, then in logging into the site, then in retrieving
your messages, reading the messages, and then responding to the messages and
managing the folders while still on line. Some "web-based" email facilities
will provide an option to have all your messages forwarded to your POP3 server
at your own ISP. This feature isn't at all useful if you are travelling far
from home and need to use someone else's computer to get your email. With the
POP3 facility offered by the "www.subdimension.com" site, you can use someone
else's computer (if anyone else will let you) to send messages, and you may
retrieve messages intended for you from the other POP3 server at
"mail.subdimension.com". This way you can keep your incoming messages private.
Accessing "mail.subdimension.com" and then downloading my test message was
just as fast as downloading a message from my own ISP's POP3 server.
So concludes my report. Any questions?
Sam Heywood
P.S. I have a question for Casper. What is CBJ and what is the name of
the URL?
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