Hello Allie,
On Sat, 25 May 2002 12:57:19 -0500 GMT (26/05/02, 00:57 +0700 GMT),
Allie C Martin wrote:
TF>> You said it. I used myrealbox this for three years when I lived in
TF>> Taiwan, and regardless which ISP I was connected to, it always
TF>> delivered all my mails from any account. :-)
ACM> At what speed?
Acceptable. With my different accounts, I use SMTP servers in Asia,
Europe, and USA. The SMTP server for this one account is in the States
(see headers).
ACM> Slower than your ISP's SMTP server I'd bet.
My cable ISP in Taiwan was EThome.net.tw. In general, I was quite
happy with the cable speed (broadband). They do provide an SMTP
server, but after a short while, it was listed on ORBL, and some of my
message were returned by the receiving servers (including
ritlabs.com). I called EThome and they didn't even know what I was
talking about, which resulted in a very educational (for them) email
exhange. Finally the SMTP server address was changed, but for some
reason, I always got the error message "could not connect to server".
My way out was myrealbox.com for my Hinet.net account at least:
My main account was on hinet.net. When you are connected via another
ISP, they will not allow you to use the their SMTP server. Sometimes I
had to dial in through them (EThome being a small company and Hinet
being the state-owned Big Guy), but this meant I kept switching.
On a side note, my mother is on AOL. They don't provide a standard
SMTP server. When I am in Germany and connected through my mother's
AOL account, I use the myrealbox.com SMTP server for my mail on other
ISPs.
TF>> No need to install an SMTP server on your computer.
ACM> When I still had my dialup account, I used to use your method but it
ACM> was too slow. There was too much of a delay while the SMTP server was
ACM> being looked up and then accessed.
My experience differs. When I had an SMTP server installed on my
system, (using the cable modem and its flat rate) of course it tried
to connect the the recipients' servers individually. Those servers
where for some reason not always immediately accessible. Each time an
access attempt was unsuccessful, I got an error message. As annoying as
that was, it meant that I had to stay online until the message was
sent. Sorry, I'd rather decide myself when I go to bed. ;-)
With myrealbox, you just send the message out. Let them deal with any
connection problems. Easy as that. :-)
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Cheers,
Thomas.
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