Re: Email question

I've got a client who uses AOL as his ISP. I set him up some POP accounts
included in a hosting package, with Outlook Express as the client and it
works fine.

----- Original Message -----
From: Steven Antonio <santonio(at)delanet.com>
To: <Prh108(at)aol.com>
Cc: hwg-basics <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 4:47 AM
Subject: Re: Email question


> > Can any body advise on the following?
> >
> > My clients hotel site is able to use a number of e-mail addresses based
on
> hi
> > domain name, e.g. bookings(at)hotel.com, enquiries(at)hotel.com, etc.
> >
> > Most use a single re-routing to reach him, as he uses AOL as his
provider
> > (the website is with another commericail source)
> >
> > What he wants to do is use the same e-mail address, e.g.
> bookings(at)hotel.com
> > for his replies rather than the aol address of joe(at)aol.com.
> >
> > There is access to some pop e-mail boxes.
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> I been through this already with AOL.  The last time I talked to them they
> told me that you can not receive or send mail directly using a POP account
> with another service.  His only chance is to see if the hosting service he
> uses also has web based Email access in addition to the POP account he has
> with them.  If not, he is SOL and will need to switch ISP's if this is
> really important to him.  AOL uses proprietary "tunneling" technology that
> keeps you from doing many things that you can do with most other
providers.
> AOL is great for parents and newbies to the Net, but very stifling for
> anyone else that wants to do anything that is slightly more advanced.
>
> If he decides to use another ISP- I have used Netscape Communicator,
Eudora,
> and Outlook Express, and out of the three, I've found Outlook Express
> superior in handling multiple POP accounts and users. I am working with
one
> year old data, but at that time, Outlook Express was the only one (out of
> those three) that could do what your client is looking for.
>
> Steve Antonio
> santonio(at)delanet.com

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