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Email Workarounds
by Ken Knight
Jan. 10, 2001 updated Sept.
10, 2001
OK, first of all, understand that I've only had my unit for a couple
of weeks and there are many users (mainly Beta testers) out there
that have had them for months. That being said, here is the
solution that I've come up with for myself, and thus far has worked flawlessly.
I started by trying to locate a *freeware* based mail server.
Sadly none of them would work through Starbands servers because
starband blocks any unauthorized access to Port 25 which is the SMTP
(Send Mail Transport Protocol) port. Most of these free mail
servers would error out with a "Connection reset by Peer",
meaning Starband's servers said, "No, No. You didn't say Mother-may-I".
I spoke with the author of one of these servers and he said he'd
attempt to get it working in the next build. Which is great,
since it's free! So here I was, no free servers working.
It was off to the land of servers that cost.
I found a server from software602 called LAN Suite2000 That offered
much, much more that any of us needed and sadly at a price that few
us would be willing to pay... $199.00. But it worked!
This being a bit on the price side, I started searching some of the
shareware sites and FINALLY found one that worked AND it was only
$20.00. That's right twenty smackaroo's. The scary part
was I had to register it before the "Forwarding Server"
would be active. After speaking with the author and his
assurance that if it didn't work he would attempt to fix it, I
decided to go ahead and take a leap of faith. Hot Dog! We're in
business, this tiny little guy works like a champ.
So now that I've got you all excited, your probably wondering what
the name of the software is and we're you can get it.... Well look no
further. It's called "NetCruiser
Mail" and here's a screen shot of it:
It has a unique interface that takes a little getting use too,
however, if you've worked with linux, you'll be right at home.
It's only about a 600k download, so it shouldn't take more than a
flash to download with your Starband unit.
Once installed you'll create pop3 mailboxes in it that correspond to
the mailboxes you want to send and recieve email through out on the
net. Then you'll simply change your email client's sever
address to something like 127.0.0.1 or the address of the machine
that NetCruiser is running on.
I've got NetCruiser Mail running on a Gateway machine which has an
address of 192.168.0.1, so I changed all the client machine Outlook
Express Server entries to 192.168.0.1 for both the Incoming and
Outgoing servers.
Over in the right hand column I've given you a quick feature list of
the two software prodcuts that I got to work.
I hope this helps a few of you out with your email woes through Starband
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