Hi Melissa On Monday, December 9, 2002 14:49 our local time, Melissa Reese wrote;
>> My current ISP in the USA closes down my account on the 19th and they >> don't have an e-mail forwarding facility and therefore my e-mail >> account is also terminated. > This is an unfortunate side effect to using one's ISP provided email > address/account for anything but communicating with one's ISP. I only > use permanent addresses that won't be affected by a switch of ISPs. Sounds like a good solution! Can you suggest any and I may take this step for future proofing. >> What options are open to me? > You could run your own SMTP server. I could do, but I don't really want the added complications. But, having said that, I could check out the below and see what I think, as it could be useful. > A free, full featured server is "Mercury": > http://www.pmail.com/overviews/ovw_mercury.htm > An even simpler solution - but not free - is ADR (Advanced Direct > Remailer): > http://www.mailutilities.com/adr/ > I use ADR to send email from all my several accounts. ADR isn't a SMTP > server...it sends email via the recipient's SMTP server (can also be > toggled to send via one's ISP server if there are problems with the > default method). I'll check them out. How does it directly go to the recipients SMTP server? Wouldn't it be the POP address? > ADR, mentioned above, also comes with a simple X-Ray plug-in. The ADR > X-Ray plug-in can only remove headers. I'm using this...along with > another included plug-in called "AdKluge", to add custom headers. Once > these are set up in ADR, X-Ray and AdKluge do their work whenever > email is sent via ADR...no need to run the stand alone X-Ray. I'll check these out too. Thanks for the advice Melissa, would you be my online help? :-) Cheers, Chris. -- Created Using The Bat! V1.62 Christmas Edition E-Mail Client. Virus Checked by DrWeb. ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
