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Re: (OT) Yet another reason why OE sucks
de HVS 04/17/2006 10:08
On 17 Apr 2006, bambam wrote
> HVS <harvey.news@ntlworld.com> wrote in
> news:Xns97A824DB3325whhvans@ 62.253.170.163:
>
>> Getting a mumble mumble bloody program whinge off my
>> chest....
>>
>> My sis-in-law is visiting from New Zealand, and I just spent
>> an hour or two trying to set up a remote download for her NZ
>> email account. She uses using Outlook Express on her laptop.
>>
>> After a bit of faffing about, I established that she needed
>> to use her ISP's remote servers (rather than standard POP
>> servers), but what I didn't know was that she can't use the
>> remote service, as it's an add-on secure-system subscription
>> that she doesn't have.
>
> Xtra, I presume? They are the only ISP in NZ that do this as
> far as I know. The only way for her to view her email is via
> the webmail route-
Yeah, it was, and you're right -- I've got her using web-mail.
(Weaning her on to another e-mail client isn't really an option.)
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Cheers,
Harvey