On Saturday 07 May 2005 9:07 pm, Ben Francis wrote:
When I move between my house, my girlfriends house and work I'm constantly changing the smtp server in Thunderbird to the corresponding ISP, but only because I've not got round to finding a better solution. Presumably an SMTP server that requires authentication can be used from multiple locations? How do other people send emails from multiple locations?
The ones I include in a couple of hosting packages I sell certainly do that and I am sure there are many others.
For remote mail I do the following
For work stuff, I am embarrassed enough to say that we run a Windows 2003 server and have the full remote web workplace thing going, so I have access to Outlook Web Access if I need it. We also have a VPN should I need access to another machine or something. This also links up to my mobile phone and sync's the mail calendar and address book so Work email I can get and send from just about anywhere.
For remote access to home mail I just ssh into my machine, bandwidth allowing I tend to just launch kmail with the ssh x forwarding stuff enabled.
I do find with this that I need to kill any kmail sessions already running first otherwise funny things happen sometimes....that said I haven't tried it since updating to KDE 3.4 so maybe that it fixed now.