Magicmail monitor won't work in public Broadband hotspots

Anyone any clues/fixes as to how to get the very useful Magic Mail E
Mail monitor to work when at a wifi hotspot?

The programme just can't make its connection as it does when at home.

On 14 Aug 2005 00:27:16 -0700, "Gel" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Anyone any clues/fixes as to how to get the very useful Magic Mail E
>Mail monitor to work when at a wifi hotspot?

have you logged in with a web browser at the hotspot first ?

it looks to just use POP3 so shouldn't have any issues if your email
client works it should.

Phil
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Yes I'm logged into BT Openzone fine Phil, and can access net.

On Company laptop can only have Lotus F***ng Notes installed, and the
VPN that runs through also fails to gain access too at such venues.

Which is why I was hoping magic would then be able to show me my other
e mail traffic, until I get to my home where I have O/Express on my
desktop.

On 14 Aug 2005 03:51:28 -0700, "Gel" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>On Company laptop can only have Lotus F***ng Notes installed, and the
>VPN that runs through also fails to gain access too at such venues.

I think Openzone uses a secure tunnel which may be the issue - VPN
inside a VPN sort of thing.

>Which is why I was hoping magic would then be able to show me my other
>e mail traffic,

what does it do ? ie error message. I have used POP3 on a hotspot
without issue. My client (Pegasus) allows selective download after
getting the headers too, which is similar to what you are doing.

It doesn't use secure authentication on yr email provider doe sit ?

Phil
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On 14 Aug 2005, "Gel" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Which is why I was hoping magic would then be able to show me my other
>e mail traffic, until I get to my home where I have O/Express on my
>desktop.

some of the web-based mail services (yahoo.co.uk, fastmail.fm, runbox.com)
have options to collect POP mail from other services, either on demand (at
yahoo on their free account it can pull mail from 2 POP mailboxes, with my
paid-for runbox account I think I have about 15 POP accounts set up, most
for manual polling, but these can be set to poll at intervals down to a
few hours, from memory). Therefore you would be able to view mail via
one web service, even if the mailbox providers don't themselves offer
webmail, but you wouldn't have the same benefits (marking and deleting
spam without it being copied across... though Yahoo has a 1 GB limit, I
think, and other services offer (pretty) generous capacities too. Peter.

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At another Hilton hotspot today Magic did work, so its just the one at
Swindon near M4 that has something blocking it I guess.