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RE: [ECS] Emailing phone messages problem Mark Sekelsky Sun, 10 Oct 1999 21:38:57 -0500

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I am using dialup on demand.  For whatever reason any email app will time
out before the connection completes (when done over the LAN).  If I use a
browser it will work fine.  In any event if I am gone for any length of time
I turn the PC running Sygate off and really want Postie to use the modem in
the ECS PC.

Mark S

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael David [mailto:michael@michaeldavid.com]
Sent: Sunday, October 10, 1999 7:29 PM
To: ecs-list@netbloc.com
Subject: RE: [ECS] Emailing phone messages problem


Hi Mark S!

I think you need to set up sygate's "dial on demand" feature, which should
automatically dial your isp wherever any machine on your network tries to
get to anything outside your network. At least, that's how I think it's
supposed to work.  I don't use dial-up with sygate, so I'm not entirely
sure.

Good Luck!  :)

Cheers!

Michael David
michael@michaeldavid.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Sekelsky [mailto:Mark@sekelsky.com]
Sent: Sunday, October 10, 1999 8:08 PM
To: ECS List
Subject: [ECS] Emailing phone messages problem

Until such time as the phone company get ASDL or the cable company beats
them I am relegated to the old dialup method for email.  Right now I use my
"main" computer for Internet access.  I run Sygate on that machine and my
ECS machine uses my network connection to access the Internet through the PC
running Sygate.

If I have an open internet connection I can email a phone message to myself
with no problem.  However if that connection is closed Postie doesn't start
the connection since it is on another machine.  What I want is for Postie to
cause the connection o happen via the modem on the ECS machine but it
doesn't want to do this.  I would guess this has something to do with how I
initially set everything up.  I think (I don't remember where this setting
was) that I set up the ECS machine so that the first choice was my LAN
connection and the second choice was modem.

At any rate, anybody know how I can get this to work?

Mark S

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