Rather than sign up for some account you may never check again. One could also run their own email server for a short period of time to send the outgoing mail. That way your clients don't need to see some strange email address in the "From:" line.
There are also other benefits, for instance: I have also used this method for incoming email when a client could only email me ridiculously large attachments because they didn't get FTP(!?). So, maybe I also didn't feel like dealing with passwords and folder permissions, but why should I when they already know how to click "send".
Another cause is DNS cache pollution, when the ISP changes server IP address - This applies mostly to Web servers, but also applies to SMTP, POP3 and IMAP.
Fortunately, starting with NT5, err, Win2k, and also NT5.1, err, XP, there's a simple 1/4 second fix:
Start -> Run -> IPCONFIG /FLUSHDNS
which clears the NT DNS resolver cache.
For a full explanation, Start -> Run -> CMD
then at the command prompt type in:
IPCONFIG /?
By the way, Comcast (cable modem ISP) has a direct web SMTP/POP3 interface...
Dan Schwartz
Cherry Hill, NJ
http://users.snip.net/~joe/
Submitted by Dan Schwartz on Thu, 09/11/2003 - 04:14.
Other solutions...you own email server...
Rather than sign up for some account you may never check again. One could also run their own email server for a short period of time to send the outgoing mail. That way your clients don't need to see some strange email address in the "From:" line.
There are also other benefits, for instance: I have also used this method for incoming email when a client could only email me ridiculously large attachments because they didn't get FTP(!?). So, maybe I also didn't feel like dealing with passwords and folder permissions, but why should I when they already know how to click "send".
Other quickie troubleshooting tricks
Nice article!
Another cause is DNS cache pollution, when the ISP changes server IP address - This applies mostly to Web servers, but also applies to SMTP, POP3 and IMAP.
Fortunately, starting with NT5, err, Win2k, and also NT5.1, err, XP, there's a simple 1/4 second fix:
Start -> Run -> IPCONFIG /FLUSHDNS
which clears the NT DNS resolver cache.
For a full explanation, Start -> Run -> CMD
then at the command prompt type in:
IPCONFIG /?
By the way, Comcast (cable modem ISP) has a direct web SMTP/POP3 interface...
Dan Schwartz
Cherry Hill, NJ
http://users.snip.net/~joe/