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Old 08/27/2008, 07:39 AM   #31 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by bclinger View Post
Those of us using external providers are not going to have a problem. In other words, if you use GMail, Yahoo!, Everyone.Net, Fastmail and bunches of others, no problem regardless of whether you are using ChatterEmail, Versastink or any of the WM applications.
Very true and that is what Sprint was thinking, but they forgot about the other people (like TurboTiger and I) that have to use a third party server.

Are you saying that Gmail and Yahoo (web-based email) will let you send other providers email from their SMTP server?

If I just used PCS Email for email, then I would just switch to a free external service like Gmail, hotmail and other and be done (as a matter of fact, I have a hotmail account and use it like crazy). I could just send a blanket email to everyone telling them that I have a new email adress.

Do you have a solution for poeple like TurboTiger and I that use the free PCS Email SMTP server to send email from other accounts?

I didn't know Everyone.net would let you send email from other servers then there own, does Everyone.net charge to use their SMTP server? I assume they do. I wish Time Warner did that (let you send from other servers)...


Here is how it currently works for me...
Hotmail: I use this address for anytime anyone that I don't know needs my email address (to buy stuff, sign up for things, message board use, etc). In this way, I keep Spam and junk off my personal email.
Road Runner (my ISP): I use this for email to people that I know and trust.
PCS mail: I use this for close family since no matter where I am at, it will "push" the email to my phone. I also use this to send emails for Road Runner from my Treo.

I have been doing this for years, ever since I had my Treo300

To use Hotmail, I have to log into the hotmail site and use their combersome interface. With RoadRunner, I can lauch Chatter and it's just like being at home. If I loose thie featrure, the I will have to log into the Road Runner webmail which is comersome like Hotmail.

Once this changes, I will have to log into email from the web like I do for hotmail which makes it a pain, not as stream line and such.

Unlike now, where I can lauch Chatter and have it send/receive five different email accounts from three different providers at one time, I'll have to go use this long song and dance...
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