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Mac Forum / Applications / Eudora / December 2006Using Eudora on Different Server -- in My Hotel
I recently completed a round of travel that took me to nearly 10 different hotels in different parts of the country, each with a different internet server connection, mostly wireless, but not always. My Eudora for this MacBook Pro Intel is configured for my office, which has a webhosting company that includes our e-mail, a different ISP (soon to be AT&T), and Earthlink and Mac accounts for personal stuff. One of the hotels even had an ISP that blocked my webhosting company because both used port 8080. So, I could only send from it -- but had to change all the preferences and configurations in Eudora. Nothing could be received, and I was relegated to webmail for Earthlink and something called mail2web.com for my business E-mail (which didn't work all the time). The hotel manager (this was part of the Hilton chain in downtown Washington DC) confessed that he'd had lots of complaints and was terminating the contract upon expiration at the end of the year. Generally, with most ISPs at hotels, I can receive with Eudora but not send. For that I have to use webmail, and it's a pain keeping track of all the messages. I have this very same problem when I bring my MacBookPro home to use here. The dominant ISP is the Earthlink account which provides my DSL service and unless I re-configure Eudora I have the same problem. Surely, there must be a way to do this short of re-configuring everything whenever I move to a different hotel or bring this MacBook home. Maybe I should move to Apple's Mail or use Thunderbird with Firefox, but I like Eudora and it's been good to me. Whatever help or suggestions this group can offer would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Dave Clark dclark@clarklawfirm.com www.clarklawfirm.com http://home.earthlink.net/~dc1999/ http://web.mac.com/dave28c/ > Generally, with most ISPs at hotels, I can receive with Eudora but not > send. For that I have to use webmail, and it's a pain keeping track of [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > Whatever help or suggestions this group can offer would be greatly > appreciated. I was having a similar problem, so I contacted my ISP and asked them if there was any solution. I wanted to be able to send mail from any location, even when not connected via my ISP. They advised me to use SSL for sending mail, and voila! it does work. Now, using SSL, I have so far been able to send any time I'm able to connect to the Internet. The settings for SSL are in a pane called "SSL" - if you don't see that pane, install the Esoteric Settings plugin that came with Eudora. (In the Finder, do "Get Info" on the Eudora Application, then check the box to activate the plugin.)  SignatureKathy - If you're reading this in your web browser from Google or similar forum, NNTP "newsreaders" are a better way to access the content. <http://www.aptalaska.net/~kmorgan/how-it-works.html> Links to NNTP newsreaders at <http://www.newsreaders.com/> > I recently completed a round of travel that took me to nearly 10 > different hotels in different parts of the country, each with a [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > > Thanks. Each Eudora personality can have its own ISP and other configuration information. And in the message composition window, there is a pop-up to set the personality that will be used. SignatureG. A. Edgar http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~edgar/ [...] > Generally, with most ISPs at hotels, I can receive with Eudora but not > send. For that I have to use webmail, and it's a pain keeping track of > all the messages. > > I have this very same problem when I bring my MacBookPro home to use > here. You're writing a long story, but are neglecting to define "cannot send". *How* can you not send? What happens when you try? If you mean you get an error message about "not relaying", it simply means that your ISP expressly doesn't allow you to send mail when you are not connected to the Internet directly through that ISP. So you need to either get them to allow you to send mail when you're not directly connected to them[*], or find another ISP. [*] As Kathy says, it may well be that your ISP does offer some alternative service that does allow "relaying". Mine does. There's even a possibility that you can use your ISP's pop server to send mail, through Eudora's XTND XMIT option (available through the SuperSleek Eudora plug-in, or though some x-eudora-setting). SignatureSander Tekelenburg, <http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/> Mac user: "Macs only have 40 viruses, tops!" PC user: "SEE! Not even the virus writers support Macs!" >One of the hotels even had an ISP that blocked my webhosting company >because both used port 8080. So, I could only send from it -- but had [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >downtown Washington DC) confessed that he'd had lots of complaints and >was terminating the contract upon expiration at the end of the year. .... Yes, they block 25. So don't use it. Use 587. Better, get SSL with a variety of ports and use that. Often the real key is a clueful ISP. Here's but 2 of the many help files at mine: http://www.panix.com/help/mail.setup-smtpauth.html http://www.panix.com/help/ssl.client.configs.html SignatureA host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433 Thanks for all the suggestions. Once again, I'm amazed and grateful at how helpful ordinary people are with tech problems. Dave > >One of the hotels even had an ISP that blocked my webhosting company > >because both used port 8080. So, I could only send from it -- but had [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 > is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433 |
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