🚀 go-pugleaf

.. and it came to pass that John Naismith <john@naismith.demon
.co.uk> uttered forth:
>Errm - I'm confused :-)

Hi - I'm Dave. ;-P
>
>You say he's registered a domain with an *ISP* that doesn't support
>dialup or email sending? 

Correct. They collect mail sent to his domain for him, but he's got
to connect to "pop3.domain.com" and authenticate on that server
to receive it. There's no dialup details, so he's got to have internet
connectivity in order to connect to this server.

>Presumably they won't forward mail/web sites
>either?

Er... hmm...

> Sounds like he's bought the wrong deal.

Yes. But he's not a computer bod and thought their "tenner for
domain name registration" an attractive deal.
>
>As far as sending mail goes - there's stacks of free ISPs. Try Lineone
>- their free account (not the Quip/Lineone deal) works well, usually a
>damn sight faster than Demon during the day (bit slower on browsing in
>the evenings). It's www.lineone.net to "sign-up" BTW.

Ta.
>
>I really don't see what the problem is - my wife has her domain hosted
>by uk2net (before anyone chips in - yes I have seen the complaints on
>uk.net, all I can say is they haven't affected us and their mail
>servers are a *lot* more responsive than Demon's) and mail/web gets
>forwarded to naismith.d.c.u.
>
>After that the local mail server copies it to her desktop and laptop
>across the LAN, and then for good measure forwards it out to her
>freeserve account which she uses when out & about with the laptop. All
>the email clients she uses are set so that the "from" and "reply-to"
>fields are set to the domain hosted by uk2net, so unless someone
>examines the header it appears it's coming from her domain (looks a
>bit more professional).... 

Hmmm.... I may pick your brains a bit over the way in which you
did this.
>
>
>PS I don't want to hijack Dave's thread - it's just I can't see what
>his problem is (apart from the fact his neighbour has a crap hosting
>service and modem)......

Problem? Lack of information. Hijacking? Not in the least - a lot of
good info in there, ta. Do continue!
>--
>John Naismith
>john@naismith.demon.co.uk

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"Dungeon" Dave, in anti-harvest mode...

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