Comments on: Email on the Road

By: judy harding

judy harding — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 17:29:54 +0000

I was wondering if anyone knows of a system you can set up in your home ,while you are traveling, that you can monitor the inside of your home from your laptop?
Judy

By: Top 10 Computer Uses in an RV

Top 10 Computer Uses in an RV — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:01:05 +0000

[...] an Internet connection 4. Researching Destinations online 5. Email 6. Sharing photos online – movie example 7. Blogging! 8. Banking 9. Listening to [...]

By: Houston

Houston — Tue, 20 May 2008 20:32:27 +0000

Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.

By: Au Pair

Au Pair — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:44:47 +0000

very nice web site. My English is not so good, so I do not understandt it well, but it seems very good. Thanks

By: olstuf33

olstuf33 — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:05:58 +0000

I use the above address along with another one or two to send and receive mail. If I have access to a wi fi system or DSL at our winter site I can easily get my mail. I have a server for the dial up system at home as DSL is not available yet there. I do not use their assigned account although I could. There are many places where we fi is available free or only a nominal charge such as Burger King etc. Public libraries generally have wi fi now. No business is ever done over the net and any private info is not sent nor received on email accounts. It is handy to be able to use email for general communication.

By: Doug Smith

Doug Smith — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 23:30:19 +0000

In addition to Gmail, Yahoo! mail has free accounts. Mine is configured to also check my ISP email accounts if I click on the icon to do so. Only use that option when I’m travelling and leave the messages on the server so I can download them when I get home.

By: Al

Al — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 03:21:58 +0000

Hi Chris;

Your suggestion to use ” mail2web.com ” brings up the question: How wise is it to give out my address and password to a 3d party I know nothing about. The fact that I use Yahoo for my mail means I implicitly trust Yahoo not to misuse that information.

Please explore the subject in a future blog. When you ask someone to collect your e-mail, they can easily read everything collected on your behalf.

Keep up the excellent educational information flow on all your blogs.

By: Robin Brumfield

Robin Brumfield — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:25:56 +0000

Good article about using webmail while on the road. However I do not advocate it due to the fact that it is very graphics intensive and can take forever if you have a poor Internet connection. What I generally recommend is that you change the settings in Outlook to leave your email on the ISP servers while on the road and then use Thunderbird since it is pretty good at ignoring the graphics even in HTML mail. It can be set to generally deal with email as text which is much quicker. In addition, with the addition of a couple of add-ons, you can set it up to get Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail as well as IMAP and POP3 accounts. I have seven email accounts that I monitor while on the road and three are the webmail accounts that I mentioned. All are checked at one time with Thunderbird so there is no bouncing around from website to website. In addition, there is a version of Thunderbird that works with a U3 drive so if you want to, you could go to a public computer that had access to the Internet and if it has a USB port available, you don’t even need your own computer to check your email. Of course you could use the webmail on the public computer but as I previously stated, that has performance issues that I don’t like dealing with.

In speaking of gmail as an alternative, Netscape offers an account for $6.95/month that gives you one email address and dial-up access to a plethora of local numbers across the country. I use the dial-up access as a source of last resort when I need to do banking or check email and there are no “hotspots” or other source of high-speed access available. In addition, it uses authentication on the SMTP servers so whatever ISP carrier you happen to be on is ignored. Some ISP mail systems require you to be on their IP segment to send email through their servers so that forces you into using webmail for those ISPs that have that restriction.

Just some food for thought.