Test msg!

Dave Woyciesjes woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net
Tue Aug 9 19:46:55 UTC 2011


Tero Pesonen wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 15:06 -0400, Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
>> Tero Pesonen wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2011-08-08 at 16:16 -0400, Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
>>>> Larry wrote:
>>>>> On 08/08/2011 01:37 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
>>>>>> Larry wrote:
>>>>>>> On 08/08/2011 08:38 AM, Alan Pope wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 8 August 2011 14:30, Larry<larryesu at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>>>>>> *My Email seems to be not getting through, so this is a test msg 
>>>>>>>>> again...*
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> You use gmail. It doesn't show your sent mail until someone replies to
>>>>>>>> it. It's always done this.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Al.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> *Ok Al, I did not know that, since I had been using Charter.net, and 
>>>>>>> now Charter will not let me send email using another ISP, something 
>>>>>>> new to make things worst...Might you know of another email client 
>>>>>>> that is better...???
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks Larry
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> *
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>     You can always use Thunderbird. Setup GMail (or any other 
>>>>>> account), but use the Charter SMTP server for sending.
>>>>>>     My employer does the same sort of thing; for security /spam 
>>>>>> prevention reasons. They only allow their SMTP server be used on their 
>>>>>> network. So this message I'm sending, while it's from my personal 
>>>>>> email, is being sent via work's SMTP server.
>>>>>>
>>>>> *This has been the problem, I can not now send any email using TB via 
>>>>> Charter, for it will not work, so in thinking that maybe GMAIL or KMAIL 
>>>>> would be better, I have tried it, but I am not seeing any of my postings 
>>>>> like I used too...
>>>>>
>>>>> I see what you are saying, you sent this email using your SMTP server, 
>>>>> which is Charter, but like I said Charter will not let me send any email 
>>>>> via another ISP...
>>>>>
>>>>> The one reason I can not use Charter, is because I am using someone 
>>>>> elses ISP, but if they had charter I then would not have any problems...
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for the reply - - Larry
>>>>> *
>>>>>
>>>> 	Ahh, I think I see the issue... You're connecting via Charter, but 
>>>> don't have your own username from Charter, right? If that's the case, 
>>>> then it seems you are stuck using the webmail interface from your email 
>>>> provider.
>>>> 	You can try Yahoo mail, they don't suppress your message that you send 
>>>> out to mailling lists like GMail does...
>>> The problem with Yahoo is it will only deliver appr. 95% of the list
>>> mail to your mail box. That's more than Hotmail, though, which silently
>>> discards even more (i.e. not delivered into the spam folder either).
>> 	Hmmm, well, OK. Yahoo runs the mailservers for SBCGlobal.net (my ISP), 
>> and I don't have any complaints, haven't seen any issues...
> 
> I used to have a couple of lists deliver to my Yahoo as well as my
> hosted account with the idea that I can archive in the Yahoo one. But
> the Yahoo account received consistently fewer messages. They did not end
> up in the spam folder; they just never arrived.
> 
> And with something like Yahoo, they're not going to fix it, since you,
> as a one of the millions of freebie users, are not important to them. 
> 
> In case of SBCGlobal the situation may be different. They are paying
> real money to Yahoo. Money can make wonders in these kind of situations.
> 

Too true

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