[NTLUG:Discuss] Advice on email account

[Bobby Sanders]

On 01/18/2011 09:18 PM, Hank Ivy wrote:
> On Tuesday, January 18, 2011 08:05 pm Bobby Sanders wrote:
>> Then my ISP forced all of its customers to use gmail.
> I am curious.  How did they force its customers to use gmail?
> You obviously made your own decision, and found another way.
I have a "semi web page" at ssvzc.com. (It is terribly out of date - I
haven't done anything with it in years - please don't look at it!) For
years I have used the email address on this message.  I started using
the outgoing and incoming mail services of my Web Hoster.  Then AOL and
some others started returning my email addressed to people on their
systems with messages to the effect that my Web Hoster was black
listed.  I contacted my Web Hoster and was informed that they couldn't
or wouldn't do anything about this.  I then configured my email program,
Thunderbird, to send my mail through my ISP, a cable company that
authenticated by the ISN (?) on my router, but with my standard email
address as the return and used my Web Hoster to pop my email.  Then my
cable company decided to use gmail to provide its emails services.  I
had to get a user name and password on the cable company and then get a
gmail address, but, with the help of their support, I finally got it all
configured so that people receiving my email saw my old email address
and I pop (or read online) my email from/at my original Web Hoster.

I didn't think anyone would be interested in all this, hence the summary
that my ISP "forced" me to use gmail! Of course they couldn't "force" me
to use gmail, but I felt "forced" by the combination of my Web Hoster
and my ISP.

Take care, my friends.

Bobby