Pegasus Mail remote dial up 1

[morpheusmuh]

Hi there can anyone guide im an end user running 2000 on a laptop and i want to collect my mail from home the email client is pegasus mail can someone point me in the right direction on how to configure my machine assuming ive already installed the protocols correctly.Many thanks

 

[Provogeek]

If I get this right, you want to be able to access your personal mail on your home system? This mail was already downloaded from your home ISP and is sitting on your system at home? This is the wrong forum, but here ya go.

If all you really want to do is access new messages that come into your amil box on your ISP, there is a way to get the mail, you just won't be able to use your home ISP's mail servers to send mail, you would have to use what ever ISP you use to get to the Internet from your laptop to send mail. The cable and DSL ISPs do not advertise the mail address out side (even dial-up), but if you just ping the mail server address and note the IP address from your home system, you can collect your e-mail from the ISP. You just configure you mail client to go to the ISP's mail server's IP address instead of the domain name they origianly provided you with.

If you want to access mail that is sitting on your home system, get a remote access program to do this. The other option is to setup a mail server at home and maintain it, but the cost of that may be way over board. At the most, the pcAnyware software from Symantec is only about 65 bucks. You will get a remote screen of your home desktop and will be able to go through your homemail client. You also have other remote access options like VNC (freeware) and RemotePC (never used it).

Do a search on the net. Maybe someone has written a mail client that can sync with another mail box so two PCs will have the same data in the mail client. Wouldn't be hard to write, and would take out the complexity of the remote control software and also address a speed issue you may run into with the remote control software. You never know, it worth a shot. Brent Schmidt CNE, Network +
Senior Network Engineer
provogeek@hotmail.com
East Bay, California; USA