I have received several complaints that there are occasional problems with the hobbyline mail server. One customer wanted to be able to travel with his laptop, log into the internet and be able to send and receive email without ever having to change his send and receive settings.
One customer had a problem connecting to a local connection phone number so he tried one in Palm Beach county. After doing so, he could receive his email but could not send.
To solve these problems, I had to implement an add-on module to the mail server called 'Pop before SMTP'. The concept is simple: first you download your email. This notifies my mail server of your current IP address, and allows you to send email anytime within 15 minutes afterwards. The reason for doing this is to only allow registered users to send email via my server and to exclude spammers from doing so.
This does not mean that you cannot send email after the 15 minutes has expired. If you find that it does not send your email, simply click the 'Send and Receive All' option from your Tools menu. This re-notifies the mail server of your IP address and opens a new 15 minute window to send.
This was a necessary implementation because my dialup users can connect anywhere in the Nation or Canada, but were unable to send email other than via the webmail option which is browser based. There was no way for me to add every single IP address that exists in the entire network to enable the sending of email. Pop before SMTP eliminates the need for this.
This was probably a little technical, and I apologize for that. I just wanted everyone to know that I care enough about my customers to offer the best services available.
If you care to read up on this subject, go to : http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=pop+before+smtp for a listing of websites that talk about this concept.
Mike Dippel
The Hobby Line! Internet
(954) 895-4638
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