From: Gary Britt 

If you setup any domain name and then buy the $4 per month web hosting, you
don't have to have a web page if you don't want.  You can still use the
email and email relaying that is provided free as part of the web hosting
deal.  Then you can use your regular pop3 app for mail whether you are on
the road or not.  This is what I do.  Your Web host's email servers are
reached for email relays through one of several possible alternative ports
to port 25. ISP's don't block email relays on ports other than 25, so if
the server at the other end is listening on a port other than 25 you can
pop3 email relays to your web hosts server from wherever you might be.

I find web interface mail to just be too damned slow to tolerate, and
hotmail and some of these others get you signed up for a lot of spam and BS
don't they?

Personally I'd be suspicious of any business contact that used a hotmail
email account.  I do have one client that uses aol email, but that's
because that's all he understands how to use, and just barely that.  When
AOL email eats document attachments I send him (or renders them unreadable
on his end) which happens quite a lot.  He has a Yahoo email account as a
back up.

Gary

Dave Ings wrote:
> My ISP Sympatico (the largest in Canada) is partnered with Microsoft, to
> whom Sympatico outsourced email server management a couple of years ago. So
> at home I use a Windows email client but when on the road I use the Web
> client version, which is basically Hotmail with a Sympatico skin.
>
> So that's why for me. But what's behind your "right mind"
comment? Lots of
> people are perfectly happy to use Web based services (especially if
> confidentiality isn't an issue). It's certainly convenient if you travel a
> lot.

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