POP E-mail and ISP

Guest · Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2001 20:38 pm Post subject: POP E-mail and ISP

I currently use soft-home.net e-mail service and retrieve mail using either Netscape Mail or Opera Mail. If I use an ISP that does not offer POP mail service can I still connect to soft-home and get mail via Netscape/Opera?

Boz · Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2001 22:29 pm Post subject: POP E-mail and ISP

unregistered wrote:

I currently use soft-home.net e-mail service and retrieve mail using either Netscape Mail or Opera Mail. If I use an ISP that does not offer POP mail service can I still connect to soft-home and get mail via Netscape/Opera?

Yes, and you can send e-mail using SoftHome's unique SMTP port or the SMTP server that the new ISP provides.

opqual · Joined: 18 Jan 2001 Posts: 450

Hey BOZ,

He said RECIEVE mail... Not SEND mail

softhomes pop server is still port 110 ? If they block pop, then he wouldn't get it.

Can still get it at the website, but that kinda ***!
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Boz · Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2001 1:57 am Post subject: ???

opqual wrote:

Hey BOZ,

He said RECIEVE mail... Not SEND mail

softhomes pop server is still port 110 ? If they block pop, then he wouldn't get it.

Can still get it at the website, but that kinda ***!

Well, I guess I just learned something new! Of the 15 or so Free ISP's and the two pay ISPs I have used, I never had INCOMING mail blocked. I have never heard of this before. What ISPs block INCOMING mail?

opqual · Joined: 18 Jan 2001 Posts: 450

I don't know of any?
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Guest · Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2001 8:53 am Post subject:

Thanks for the info. I should have stated "send" also in the original post. I use AVON but do not have e-mail configured at all with them. I am considering a new ISP since AVON is going to $12.95, and I am confused about the pop/web or lack of these services that some offer and unsure of what would happen to my softhome account. I have already been thru 4 pay ISPs this year and e-mail always seemed a problem to reconfigure until I got softhome. I just want to avoid the headaches if I switch providers.

realgeorge · Joined: 26 Nov 2001 Posts: 1320

unregistered, I just finished a free trial with TalentGroup ($7.99 a mo) which worked great sending and receiving mail using Outlook Express with Softhome which is my default mail server. Softhome works great with my Qualguard. Even when an ISP doesn`t advertise that they support pop3 mail service, Softhome seems to work with them. An ISP may not have a pop server as part of their service, but a good pop3 mail server like Softhome, Mochamail, and Tifan should work with it. I use all three servers with Mochamail and Tifan as backups. Grin