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[justsomegurl.livejournal.com]

Cutest thing happened yesterday. Customer called and wanted some help with e-mail. She has a friend staying with her and they are trying to check her friends email with some other ISP (let's say ISPA). She wants to know why she can't get her e-mail from webmail at ISPB. She said "They say you can check your e-mail from anywhere in the world" *giggle* Had to explain you can check ISPB's e-mail "wherever you are in the world", not you can check e-mail from any ISP in the world.

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[rettiger.livejournal.com]

You know, her ISP might have actually had a webmail interface that would have allowed her to check her email dialed up to you. Ours does.

[justsomegurl.livejournal.com]

Right. We do too. But what I said was she was at webmail for Company B and putting in her email address for Company A. Kinda like going to yahoo and putting in your hotmail e-mail address and wanting to know why it doesn't work.

[jecook]

Heh. some mail server software has that ability to pull mail from other mail servers and collect it at one single point. Nice feature, but I know of no one that uses it.

Andthere are some web-mail-ish software that can do that as well.

[justsomegurl.livejournal.com]

oooo. I've never heard of that... that would be interesting

[prozacnation.livejournal.com]

mailstart.com is one interface I know of that can check any email on any ISP.

[jacobine.livejournal.com]

I used to use Yahoo to check my home domain's email all the time. Until our network group decided that web-based email was in danger of getting us viruses....

[jcaswell.livejournal.com]

Yours too, huh? I work in a school and the local education authority provide the internet connectivity (but that's another rant entirely), and in their wisdom have decided that only their webmail should be available to anyone - regardless of who they are or what they do. Fortunately for me, thanks to a cockup a few weeks ago where they blocked the whole of Google for a morning, I can now get to Gmail (It was blocked, then they blocked everything, then everyone screamed at them, then they unblocked the works. They've not noticed yet.)