[dundee] Telewest Broadband 512Kb

[Colin Brough]

> On Friday 16 January 2004 10:34, Colin Brough wrote:
> > Yip; make sure you get an Ethernet rather than a USB modem; the
> > connection "just works" - DHCP to provide IP address. I'm using
> > Mandrake, and the Mandrake Control Centre did everything for me...
> > There are some pretty savvy folk hang around in blueyonder.comp.linux
> > once you are connected.
> >
> The rest of my network is uses static IP numbers, can you mix and match with 
> DHCP.

Pass.

> > Warning - bleyonder's e-mail system runs on MS Exchange mumble, and
> > falls over fairly frequently. Sometimes I think BY volunteered to act
> > as a beta tester for Exchange in an ISP environment, since no one else
> > seems daft enough to run it!!
> 
> Ah!
> 
> Can you redirect e-mail address to it?
> 
> eg steven at perthlearners.co.uk to point at steven at blueyonder.co.uk

That would depend on your domain, not blueyonders, presumably? Most
people want to redirect *away* from blueyonder!! And, you can't get
XXXXX at blueyonder.co.uk to redirect to another address. Not a service
they offer... There is a webmail option, so you can access your BY
account from another connection if necessary, though that sends in
base64 encoded webmail only!! Another classic is that when the BY
e-mail server generates a bounce (try sending to
'this_is_not_a_valid_address at blueyonder.co.uk') it transforms a plain
text e-mail into HTML!! :-( :-( BY don't seem to know how to switch
this off!

Cheers

Colin

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Colin Brough                             Colin.Brough at blueyonder.co.uk