Re: getting/sending email when travelling
From: Jan Verkade (jsverkade_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/12/04
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Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 16:33:58 +0200
Newbie,
You may have to use a VPN connection to log in to your network from outside
of the company. That may be the reason your friend in IT is not too keen, as
I imagine VPN networks aren't cheap.
What I have done myself is this: at home, my private email is sent through
an smtp-host from my internet provider. I have set up an extra account in
Outlook Express (but it doesn't matter what program you use) using my work
email address. As long as your own internet provider does not need to
'authenticate' the account before sending email, your email will be sent
using your work email address. It's like sending regular email, writing down
a different sender's address from your own on the back of the envelope. Of
course you still won't be able to read mail that way, but at least the
replies will be sent to your work address.
Good luck!
Jan
"Newbie Supreme" <newbiesupreme@yahoo.com> schreef in bericht
news:2o1715F5f6nfU1@uni-berlin.de...
> I set up the email account for a few salesmen in our company - I used the
IP
> address of our mail server (not sure if it's Esxchange or not, the network
> guy here is a real tool; he won't share any info because he thinks all the
> sales guys should use their AOL or hotmail accounts or whatever, but I
think
> professional salesman at a professional company should have the company
> domain on their emails, not Hotmail with whatever advertisement hotmail
> feels like spreading around, y'know?) for POP and SMTP, put in their
> usernames/passwords, blah blah the whole deal. I then had them connected
on
> the netwrok at work, and tested their accounts. They worked for sending
and
> receiving.
>
> However, from anywhere outside the network, they get the "tcp/ip
connection
> unexpectedly terminated.." error. This happens whether they're using a
> modem line to dial up to AOL/whatever the hell they use, or if they're on
a
> network that has access to the web in another company's network. They can
> see web pages and surf fine, but this outlook account doesn't work.
>
> I was under the impression that as long as there was a connection to the
> web, and the IP address of the email server was correct, and the
> username/password to access the email was correct, it didn't matter where
> someone was or how they were connected to the internet. It seems I'm
wrong
> about this. When they're on the network here at work, it works fine.
When
> they're on some other network, or dialed up using an ISP from a hotel or
> whatever, it doesn't.
>
> Can I get help on this?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Newbie Supreme
>
>
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