From: "Ed Durrant" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
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Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:09:28 +1000
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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: Another weird motel situation
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Even simpler still (and free) go to http://www.mail2web.com and have 
that server login for you, to your POP3 server and present it back to 
you as a webpage.

  Not sure if this will let you sendmail however ...  But it does get 
you around the hotel blocking you from reading your e-mail at least.

Cheers/2

Ed.


Jeffrey Race wrote:
> attglobal subscribers: if you have their premium plan (I do, $25 per month) you can
> perform all mail transactions via web interface.   You also get access
> to att wifi for nothing.   this system works very well for me almost everywhere
> in the world
> 
> jeffrey race
> 
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:22:56 +1000, Ed Durrant wrote:
> 
>> Julian Thomas wrote:
>>> After a great Warpstock X in Windsor (many thanks to Lewis and all the
>>> rest of the folks who made it such a great event) we hit the road towards
>>> Niagara-on-the-Lake where we had planned a birthday dinner for MJ.  We
>>> made good time (somewhere between what googlemaps thought was the
>>> acceptable time and what Edgar suggested as his best time :-).  Ended up
>>> at a Hilton Garden Inn there.
>>>
>>> First of all, the wireless wouldn't connect.  XWLAN said that it was
>>> trying to establish the connection (don't remember exactly what) but it
>>> had a good signal and the hilton SSID.
>>>
>>> So I switched to wired (they had both in the rooms) and it got through
>>> with no problems - until we tried to send email.  It didn't go - I tried a
>>> telnet to my SMPT servers on port 25 and neither of them connected.  Tried
>>> port 2525 (suggested as an alternate by my hosting service to access their
>>> relay server) and it seemed to go through.  Unfortunately my mailer -
>>> MR2ICE doesn't allow setting an alternate SMTP port.
>>>
>>> Looks like these guys are blocking any access out of their little world to
>>> port 25.
>>>
>>> HGI is part of the Hilton empire, and we've never had these problems from
>>> the Hampton Inns (our usual choice in that empire).
>>>
>>> If I get a round tuit in the days to come, I will send them a blast email;
>>> the desk clerk seemed quite clueless about this situation.....
>>>
>>>  
>> You'll probably find some local supplier has installed it for the hotel 
>> and they won't know how it works. Blocking e-mail traffic is not unusual 
>> on hotspots I have found, so it's useful if you have a webmail interface 
>> on your e-mail server (or your service providers if you're not running 
>> your own mail server).
>>
>> It's also possible that the WiFi access point was using WPA, but this 
>> would be strange, but that would explain why you could see the SSID but 
>> not connect.
>>
>> Cheers/2
>>
>> Ed.
>>