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When
you travel outside Tanzania, there are two ways you can do
your Habari e-mail:
- Webmail
- E-mail
program
such as Outlook or Eudora
Webmail
is good if you are traveling without a computer. You can go
into any internet cafe, bring up the Habari website, click
on Webmail, and read and write your mail.
But webmail
is slow. It sometimes takes a long time for each letter to
open. It may take a long time to send. And you have to be
on line to use it.
E-mail
program. If you are travelling with a laptop, or
if you are staying in one location and have access to the
same computer each day, it is better to use a program such
as Outlook or Eudora. The reasons are as follows
- Background
downloading and sending.
Especially if you are on cable or another permament
connection, your mail will download in the background while
you are doing other things. When it has all come in, the
program tells you, and you can open each letter immediately
without waiting. Sending is also done in the background,
after you have written your replies and while you do other
things.
- Letters
are on your computer.
Downloaded letters are available for you to read and to
answer on your own computer -- even if you are off line.
- Answer
while off line. If you have a dialup connection,
there is even more reason to use an e-mail program rather
than webmail. You can download your mail and go off line
to answer it. Then, when you have read and answered your
mail, you can dialup again and send everything.
One
problem with an e-mail program. Perhaps you have
already tried to use your Outlook, Pegasus or Eudora programs.
You found you could download your Habari e-mail, but you could
not send mail. This is because of security arrangements on
the Habari server. But there are methods to get around the
problem.
Two
solutions to the problem: Many people use another
e-mail service while traveling. This is one solution, but
it means you also have to keep checking your Habari account
for incoming mail. A second solution also involves using another
e-mail service, but allows you to continue using your Habari
account without having to check it constantly. Habari mail
will come in automatically.
- Use
another e-mail service via the internet.
Many people simply use an account like Yahoo! or Hotmail
or Lycos when they travel. The disadvantages to doing this
are:
-
your friends have to change their address book while
you are travelling;
- you
yourself must either ignore your Habari e-mail (and
miss important messages) while you travel, or you have
to copy messages from Habari into Yahoo!, etc., in order
to answer;
- Yahoo!
and similar services are very slow to use.
- Use
another e-mail service with an e-mail program and a habari
return address.
It is possible to use an account such as Lycos or Yahoo!
in such a way that your friends do not realize it. They
will continue to see your Habari address in your mail, and
when they hit Reply they will send to your Habari address.
Yet you yourself do everything from within your Lycos or
Yahoo! e-mail. And you do all this with your own e-mail
program (Outlook, Eudora, etc.), rather than the Lycos or
Yahoo! website.
How
to do it. The following section tells how to do
this using Eudora for the e-mail program, and Yahoo! for the
e-mail provider. But you could also use Outlook and Yahoo!
How
to set up Eudora with a
Yahoo! e-mail account and a
Habari return address
Key
concept #1: When working with an e-mail provider
(such as Habari, Lycos, Yahoo!, Hotmail, etc.), you must
use their POP and SMTP settings, but you can use any return address.
That is, you may set your e-mail program up with:
- POP:
pop.mail.yahoo.com
- SMTP:
smpt.mail.yahoo.com
- Reply
to: yourname@habari.co.tz
Key
concept #2: In order to use the POP and SMTP addresses
in your e-mail program, you must usually pay for it. Why?
Answer: Yahoo! (and other web-based e-mail providers) give
you a free account because you have to come to their website
to use it. And while you are there you will see their advertising.
But if you pay (usually $20/year -- less than $2/month), they
will let you use their POP and SMTP addresses to set up your
own e-mail program and avoid their website.
Key
concept #3: Habari allows automatic mail forwarding.
While you are traveling, you can have all of your Habari mail
automatically forwarded to your Yahoo! (or other) account.
Overview:
What we are going to do is:
- Set
up a paid-for Yahoo! account on Eudora.
- Put
your habari address in the return address (the "Reply
to" address). Thus, when people receive your Yahoo!
mail they will see your Habari address. And when they answer
your mail, it will go to your Habari account.
- Set
up Habari to automatically forward all your mail to
your Yahoo! account
This
avoids trying to SMTP through Habari, and yet your friends
will see your Habari address in their mail and they can reply
to it. Your Yahoo! mail to your friends will look like this::
Here
are the 3 steps:
- Pay
for (or upgrade) a Yahoo! account.
(Click here
to go to Yahoo)
Yahoo! offers a free account and a "Yahoo! Mail Plus"
account. You want "Mail Plus." Perhaps you already
have a free Yahoo! (or Lycos, etc.) account. In that case,
you just need to upgrade to their "Yahoo! Mail Plus."
Cost: $20/year.
- Set
up Eudora
(Click here
to download Eudora)
- If this is a new Eudora installation,
use the following settings as you go through the setup.
(The example below is for Yahoo! (Click here for Lycos settings.)
- Personal
Information:
Enter your name.
- Email
Address: yourname@habari.co.tz.
- Login
Name: Enter your Yahoo! Mail ID (your
Yahoo! email address without the "@yahoo.com").
- Incoming
Email Server: Type "pop.mail.yahoo.com"
and make sure that "POP" is selected at
the bottom.
- Outgoing
Email Server: Type "smtp.mail.yahoo.com."
Also check the box next to "Allow authentication."
- If
you already have a Eudora program (set up
for your Habari account, for instance), then do the
following:
-
Click
on the "Tools" menu and select "Personalities."
- Right-click
in the "Personalities" box (on the left
of the screen) and select "New."
- The
New Account Wizard will take you through the setup.
Use the following settings (The example below is
for Yahoo! Click here for Lycos settings.)
- Personality
Name:
Yahoo! Mail (What is a Personality?)
- Account
Settings: Select "Create a new
account."
- Personal
Information:
Enter your name.
- Email
Address: yourname@habari.co.tz
- Login
Name: Enter your Yahoo! Mail ID (your
Yahoo! email address without the "@yahoo.com").
- Incoming
Email Server: Type "pop.mail.yahoo.com"
and make sure that "POP" is selected
at the bottom.
- Outgoing
Email Server: Type "smtp.mail.yahoo.com."
Also check the box next to "Allow authentication."
-
Click the "Finish" button when you
are done.
- To
control deletion of messages from the Yahoo! Mail
Server, follow these steps:
- Click
on the "Tools" menu and select "Options."
- Click
the picture on the left that says "Incoming
Mail."
- Check
"Delete from server after..." if you
want your messages to be deleted from the Yahoo!
Mail server once you have received them Eudora.
Do not check this box if you want to save your
Yahoo! Mail messages on the Yahoo! Mail server
as well as on your local computer
- Set
up mail forwarding
Click here
to go to Habari's "Change Your Mailbox Settings"
utility. After logging in, set up the foward as follows:
By saying
"no" to "Keep messages," the messages
you receive in your Habari mail will be forwarded to you
and not kept on the Habari server.
At this
point, you will be set up. Open Eudora, and your Habari mail
will come in through your Yahoo! account. When you respond,
you will see your Habari address in the "From:"
field.
If you
were already using Eudora, and you set up Yahoo! as a second
Personality, then when starting a new letter you will need
to click on "From:" and select your Yahoo! account.
Your Habari address will appear in both cases. But you will
not be able to send (SMTP) mail through your <Dominant> Habari account.
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