Hi! Yes, HOtmail would work through POP and SMT. I have ahotmail account.
Also, you can use your University account by going through your primary server. I do that for my work email account through my Earthlink account. It works fine. My office computer tech helped me set up the account on my BrailleNote. This is sure a blessing when I am on the rood for my job. Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sabahattin Gucukoglu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Braillenote List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 6:16 AM Subject: Re: [Braillenote] Email Question > Hi, > > On 27 Apr 2004 at 11:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke, thus: > > > This summer, I'll be interning in Washington, DC and obviously I'm not > > taking my desktop with me, so I'm going to be learning to do email on my > > Braille Note 32. I planned on using my university email account (I only use > > this AOL account for listservs...my primary address is @umn.edu), but I > > recently found out that the University of Minnesota doesn't have any DC > > dial-up numbers. Grrr. So...is there anything I can do? Can I check hotmail > > or yahoo on my BN? I don't suppose you can check AOL from a Braille Note? > > Of those you have listed, only Yahoo seems plausible - I understood they > offer POP3 and SMTP once upon a time, though whether or not this is still > true, I don't know. Someone else may be able to fill you in on that. > > Regarding your university account - there is no reason you can't use this > if your university provides the appropriate services from any point on the > internet. Ask the network administrators or help desks whether or not you > can connect, without SSL security, to their POP3 server. If yes, you can > at least receive mail by dialling in with any local service provider in > Washington. Confirm this with them. Next, ask if they support SMTP > authentication or POP-Before-SMTP authentication. If they do, you can > send mail, too, and you're all set - all you need now is a dialup local to > Washington, and I'll leave others to help you find this. If for some > reason the plan failed, then: > > 1. If - and this aint likely - they won't let you use their POP3 service, > go looking for another free account. There's loads out there, Jonathan > mentioned one. runbox.com is another, mailandnews.com, myrealbox.com ... > and loads others. > > 2. If SMTP is the issue, some services will let you sign up for > authenticated SMTP service. Perhaps they will still give you a complete > package with POP3 and SMTP and a new email address, as is the case for > myrealbox.com (a new one I'd recommend - Novell's groupwise testing, and > its users are its testers, so there's no advertising), but usually you now > have the option of dialling in wherever you want and then using that > specific SMTP server with authentication. You can keep your uni account > and simply relay through that host. If such a service doesn't find you in > time, let me know and I'll arrange an account on my home mail system which > will let you relay with your BrailleNote. > > The comprehensive free email address reference is > http://www.emailaddresses.com/ . > > Cheers, > Sabahattin > -- > Thought for the day: > The only thing that hurts more than paying income tax > is not having to pay income tax. > > Latest PGP Public key blocks? Send any mail to: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sabahattin Gucukoglu > Phone: +44 (0)20 7,502-1615 > Mobile: +44 (0)7986 053399 > http://www.sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/ > Email/MSN: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > ___ > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > >
