Email and dialup / disconnecting

[Ian]

Hi all,

I am working with a client who says they are having trouble with the webmail clients. They want to be able to load up the webmail client, disconnect their dial up, write the email and then reconnect and send it, but it gives them errors. They have told me hotmail allows this, but this seems odd to me and even poses a security threat? Any suggestions? My first solution would be to write the email in a text editor first and then connect.

[Jonathan]

Perhaps have them use something like Thunderbird,
which is 10000% better than outlook

Then they can connect, open that open
and enter their passwords ~ disconnect after
all the new emails come.

Then write out each reply, connect, ~ hit send

[sdjl]

I doubt webmail will allow you to do this.
The session will most likely expire when they disconnect.

If they like hotmail so much for that feature, maybe they should stick to hotmail

Alternatively, why don't they use Outlook or Eudora or another equivilant? It does exactly what they want and erm, is probably more reliable..

David

[-Oz-]

Horde opens a new browser window for the email, hotmail doesn't, this along with sessions is probably the reason why hotmail works and horde does not.

[Ian]

Thanks, I knew the sessions were probably the issue. I think that hotmail would be a security risk to the user with such a long expire time.

I have already mentioned using a client, but they want webmail.