[rgreen4]

That may be your best bet. I have used my dial-up ISP's webmail for over 4 years now, primarily so that I could access my e-mail from any internet connected computer. When I went to a satellite provider, I kept the dial-up as a back-up and to keep my e-mail address. The filtering is great, if I get an e-mail from someone who is not in my address book (on-line address book not OE), then it goes into a suspect folder. I browse through the subjects and senders, and delete 90% of them without ever opening them.

I also retain a good many of them on-line, again so I could access them from anywhere. (Work, Home, Vacatation, etc). The only real disadvantage is that you have to manually delete those you don't want to retain, of course you do on OE as well, but you have more storage space on your machines hard drive. The additional storage space is the only advantage I see to Outlook Express (or Windows Mail as it's called on Vista).

One last thought. Have you tried a direct connect to your roommates DSL modem? Try that sometime and maybe it's the router setting. The direct connection will either confirm or eliminate that possibility.

I know when I first went to Hughesnet, I couldn't connect either and to pull down e-mails for archiving on my XP machine with OE, I had to use the dial-up. I had tried everything, including hours with the Hughesnet techs. Then while on a trip a year ago last April to a friends house in Texas, I was talking to my friend one evening in his den/office with my laptop on and he said it should connect. I went onto the Webmail and moved those messages I did not want to pull down into sub-folders and left a few test messages in my in-box. I turned on my machine, opened OE and voila, it pulled them all down. I later deleted them because I didn't want to keep them on the laptop. So when I go back home, I tried again, and it worked. Some setting somewhere had changed, and to this day I don't know what.

When I changed to DSL, I also made the decision to move my archive to Windows Mail as this Vista based machine is my main machine now, but the principle is the same. I had no trouble downloading.

[smax013]

cllogan said:

alchav21 you are correct, I have tried with the box checked in the Authentication box. that was what the tech from lanset had me do. I think that at&t is blocking port 25 on their server. Also I really do not want to use lanset's web email program, I like OE for my email. rgreen4 this only has to do with email. I get my lanset email by using my roommates at&t internet connection. It goes from the modem to a router then to the various rooms in the house. I may have to have my roommate contact at&t to get some answers on their end.

With the advent of SPAM being so prevalent, ISPs have REALLY cracked down on connections/use of SMTP (outgoing) servers. It used to be that you could log onto just about ANY SMTP server to send your email messages. Now, however, most ISPs will require you to use a login (i.e. authentication) to access their SMTP server. This is just about ALWAYS true if you login into the SMTP server from a network that is NOT the ISP's network, but can also be true for some ISP's on their own network.



In addition, some ISPs will completely block access to "outside" SMTP servers from their network. This sounds like it might be the case for the AT&T network. If so, then your best bet is to use AT&T's SMTP server to send your email messages. You can look at your roommates email setup and use the SMTP server for the AT&T network and see if that works. It might require a login (i.e. your roommate's login). If so, then either your roommate will have to share his/her login information...or if your roommate can create additional email accounts, have him/her create an additional account for you and then use that account login with the AT&T server. You can still use your POP (incoming) email server for your email account...and still send using the AT&T server...most likely.



The other option is to look for an SMTP relay service. One such service is www.smtp.com.