From: Gary Britt 

Also, the web host email accounts have a web interface available if you
absolutely had to have one.  I had to use the web interface only once.  A
particular hotel's high speed connection didn't let my relayed email get
out.  The only time I've encountered a problem.  I was forced to use the
web interface to send mail, but used my pop3 client to receive mail.

Gary

Gary Britt wrote:
> 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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