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sewinggoddess

Is there any way to detect what ISP a place has when I use another
network?

Example: I am sitting at my car dealer using their internet lounge
with my PowerBook with Airport Wireless & want to be able to send
email from my Entourage, but of course, most of these employees here
do not know where to even look for their settings, etc. I don't want
to have to ask every place I go, what their ISP is, so I can set up
the outgoing SMTP settings.

Thanks in advance!!

Cat
 
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Corentin Cras-Méneur

sewinggoddess said:
Is there any way to detect what ISP a place has when I use another
network?
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Not an easy task...
Example: I am sitting at my car dealer using their internet lounge
with my PowerBook with Airport Wireless & want to be able to send
email from my Entourage, but of course, most of these employees here
do not know where to even look for their settings, etc. I don't want
to have to ask every place I go, what their ISP is, so I can set up
the outgoing SMTP settings.
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You can still use Sendmail in MacOS X <10.3 or Postfix for MacOS X 10.3
to send e-mail using your own Mac as your SMTP server.

You can find sharewares that will do that for you, but for Posfix, you
can easely do it yourself:
http://www.entourage.mvps.org/exchange/postfix.html

It works on most networks (but a few places block the required ports for
SMTP).

Once activated, simply use localhost or 127.0.0.1 as your smtp server.

Corentin
 
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Barry Wainwright

Not an easy task...



You can still use Sendmail in MacOS X <10.3 or Postfix for MacOS X 10.3
to send e-mail using your own Mac as your SMTP server.

You can find sharewares that will do that for you, but for Posfix, you
can easely do it yourself:
http://www.entourage.mvps.org/exchange/postfix.html

It works on most networks (but a few places block the required ports for
SMTP).

Once activated, simply use localhost or 127.0.0.1 as your smtp server.

Corentin
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I use postfix all the time. No problem with 99% of recipients - AOL is the
main culprit at blocking mail from non-fixed IP addresses. When I send to my
parents (both on AOL addresses!) I use a mac.com account, where you can
connect by authenticated smtp from anywhere.
 
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Corentin Cras-Méneur

I use postfix all the time. No problem with 99% of recipients - AOL is the
main culprit at blocking mail from non-fixed IP addresses. When I send to my
parents (both on AOL addresses!) I use a mac.com account, where you can
connect by authenticated smtp from anywhere.
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You can even take it one level further... Use DynDNS or No-IP or something
like that to get a domain name associated with the machine and tweak the
PostFix settings to reflect this. That allows you to be cnsidered as sending
e-mails from a "qualified doman".

Corentin
 
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Barry Wainwright

You can even take it one level further... Use DynDNS or No-IP or something
like that to get a domain name associated with the machine and tweak the
PostFix settings to reflect this. That allows you to be cnsidered as sending
e-mails from a "qualified doman".

Corentin
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I could. I have a dyndyns account, however, for the number of times I get
problems it doesn't seem worth the trouble.
 
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Corentin Cras-Méneur

I could. I have a dyndyns account, however, for the number of times I get
problems it doesn't seem worth the trouble.
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True... I couldn't agree more... Thinkgs could change inn this area though
the day ISP will REALLY make an effort to cut down on spam and check that
e-mails are sent from a qualified address... (that won;t happen anytime soon
though :-> ).

Corentin
 
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