On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 03:08:45PM -0700,
Matthew(_dot_)van(_dot_)Eerde(_at_)hbinc(_dot_)com wrote:
Andy Mays (via Julian Mehnle) wrote:
Adelphia will let me access and send mail through their web portal, but
it's a pain in the neck to use. They don't permit POP access to their
SMTP servers from remote locations (oh I already said that, didn't I) but
I really like using a real email client (Thunderbird) instead of web
mail.
I tell anyone who will listen that it's not a good idea to use an email
account provided by your ISP. If you want to switch ISPs later, you're stuck
with the hassle of changing email addresses.
Yahoo mail or Windows Live mail (nee Hotmail) or GMail are all free, and the
WebMail plugin for Thunderbird works with all of them.
Granted that is the reason why there is little point in using your ISP as
the default option, but if Andy is using this for business, as he
seems to say, then having his own domain would likely make sense.
It would be nice to be able to point to one of a few simple "best practice"
or "case study" pages, you know "home user", "small business" ... where
the ins and outs of a setup and it's rationale and requirements are laid
out, so that it would be easy to reply to Andy saying "take a look at
this, you likely want to be travelling in that direction".
Perhaps Andy's story could make a good case study ... :-)
Regards,
Paddy
--
Perl 6 will give you the big knob. -- Larry Wall
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