Sending email on the road
So, we have decided to take a laptop to manage our digi photos and email, as well as browse the HUBB offline.
One problem remains: assuming we find places where we can plug the PC into the Net, how can we send mail? Normally access to SMTP servers is restricted to the one of the internet provider you are connected to, to avoid spam.
Possible solutions:
Webmail - too cumbersome, I want to compose emails and just push the button to send them.
Install an smtp server on the notebook. I suspect that this will meet with limited success, mail being rejected as coming from an invalid address, etc. Any spammer could do just that...
Use a paid-for service. Pretty expensive what I have seen so far.
Ask the access point for a server name, then reconfigure the email program. Possible, looks like my preferred solution so far.
Any other/better ideas, anybody?
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Salut from Southern France, the bikers' paradise,
Peter.
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