3435 help help

Been stuck up in the hills only 1000 feet above sea level alone with the dog.
It has snowed here for 5 months worst weather in 26 years apparently!
Ha it had to be cause I was coming. Just got the phone line in after 4 months of waiting and got the internet through telecom.it not bad 12 euros a month to surf all day (when it connects that is ) Trying to learn language problem I have is telecom italia do not supply email addresses I am on dial up only no fancy broadband or adsl any one out there in the same boat. I need to know how I can get an email address to work through outlook express at the moment I have to go online through virgilio.it and try to understand how to send an email (nightmare) Help I am going mad I have 3 Italian neighbours dont speak a word of English but I suppose thats good for me no cheating with the language it is fun and frustrating at the same time trying to make myself understood Any one can solve the problem I just want to be able to email back home through my pop & smtp Help please desperate
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General chat about Italy

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 04/28/2006 - 12:42

I appreciate you might find this a bit difficult if your Italian isn't up to much, but you could get yourself a free @tin.it address (somewhere on the evil [url]www.187.it[/url] site) or an @libero.it address on [url]www.libero.it[/url], or from Tiscali [url]www.tiscali.it[/url]. Tiscali may be the easiest site to use, 187 is not easy at all!!
Be aware that for some reason a lot of spam filters don't accept mail from some of these addresses (apparently it is the .it they don't like!) and if you need to contact aol subscribers you may have difficulties - so it is always worth having a hotmail account (though I agree it is much more convenient to use Outlook Express!) for the odd emergency.
Good luck - hope you are in contact with the rest of the world soon, and the weather can only get better :) :)

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 04/28/2006 - 12:57

Hi Kym

Can't help (don't not know nuffik about that stuff!) but stick with it; we'll all help if we can.

........if nothing else you'll find a small oasis of sanity here to help you with the madness!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 04/28/2006 - 16:53

Try gmail.com it works with outlook for me.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 04/28/2006 - 16:58

Don't you have to "be recommended by a friend" or leap through some other wierd hoop to get a G-mail address??

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 04/28/2006 - 17:12

yes - whoever wants an invite - I got hundreds. pm me with your current email address and I'll send you one.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 04/28/2006 - 18:01

[QUOTE=kyminitaly]Been stuck up in the hills only 1000 feet above sea level alone with the dog.
It has snowed here for 5 months worst weather in 26 years apparently!
Ha it had to be cause I was coming. Just got the phone line in after 4 months of waiting and got the internet through telecom.it not bad 12 euros a month to surf all day (when it connects that is ) Trying to learn language problem I have is telecom italia do not supply email addresses I am on dial up only no fancy broadband or adsl any one out there in the same boat. I need to know how I can get an email address to work through outlook express at the moment I have to go online through virgilio.it and try to understand how to send an email (nightmare) Help I am going mad I have 3 Italian neighbours dont speak a word of English but I suppose thats good for me no cheating with the language it is fun and frustrating at the same time trying to make myself understood Any one can solve the problem I just want to be able to email back home through my pop & smtp Help please desperate
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Congration on the phone line,and I've been moaning about waiting 6 weeks.
pop & smtp mail I use outlook and my Email @yahoo.com
open outlook go to TOOLS then E-MAIL ACCOUNTS then ADD A NEW EMAIL ACCOUNT OR VIEW OR CHANGE EXSITING E-MAIL ACCOUNTS then click CHANGE
incoming mail server (POP3) "POP.MAIL.YAHOO.COM"
outgoing mail server (SMTP) "SMTP.MAIL.YAHOO.COM"
if your email ends with @virgilio.it then try POP.MAIL.VIRGILIO.IT, SMTP.MAIL.VIRGILIO.IT
Yahoo and hotmail do charge for this service I think it was £11.
hope this help

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 04/30/2006 - 13:53

If you get a temporary email address (web based) such as hotmail or yahoo and PM me your address I can invite you to gmail.com which does not charge for POP/SMTP access as Trulli and I both use it - the benefit is that you can get to your email via outlook as shown above by libero also you can see it anywhere around the world via the web interface. If you have an email of anysort you can still get to let me know and we can get it sorted for you

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 05/01/2006 - 06:52

I have had the same problems. It took five months to get the phone installed and it is such an awful connection that I have asked my contacts not to send more than one photo at a time as the connection breaks regularly. I was very lucky with our Engllish speaking geometra and his family otherwise I think I would still be with carrier pigeons! Am trying to fix the international calls offer on the 187.it telecom site at 10euros per month for unlimited calls, as we have family in USA and europe.. Has anyone else tried it? Seems too good to miss.