David 2000, you may notice with that solution that when you are forwarding or replying to messages sent to you, it doesn't work. That is because they are sent to your NTL account which it tries to use to send the message out again. The answer is that when you forward/reply you need to select the BT account in the drop down box in the From field. Or you could run an smtp server, but that is geekish :-)

The BT account should be set as the default account, but unfortunately it doesn't use that when forwarding/replying.

Kayak,

Make sure your SMTP server is ONLY set to allow connections from your local host else, depending on how it is set up, anyone could use your connection to relay email.

Now, for more advanced things, should you have a static IP with your ADSL, it would be possible for you to register, for instance, kayak.com (if it were available), and set its mail exchanger records to point to your home machine. Your SMTP server would then deal with the mail, and if you are using MDaemon, then it could route email into different mailboxes, allowing you to have seperate email accounts for the whole family (mdaemon supports pop3 very well.)

Just an idea. If you want to do this and need to know how to set up the DNS for it, just give me a shout...

J.

Jon, yes, I've been through all the options and set it just to accept connections from my local network. The main difficulty actually was with the ISP with which I have my mail account. Out of 10 smtp servers that I tried, theirs was the only one that wouldn't accept just the host name in the HELO message, it wanted a domain name tacked onto the end. Good security, I thought, until I realised that any "x.y" would work!

As for the rest, as it happens I did have a static IP with Pipex until a few weeks ago when I exercised the option to make it a dynamic one for privacy... and you can't go back! But to be honest I already have different mailboxes by setting accounts up with dial-up ISPs. I'll give you a shout when I want to progress to the next level of geekiness :-)

Thanks Kayak. Do a fair bit of that and auto forwarding.So if I change the incoming server too, will that sort it. Also is it the same address?

You can't change the incoming server, david, since the mail you are trying to receive is physically on the NTL server. The BT server won't have it. I don't use auto-forwarding myself but I suspect you will have problems with it since I doubt there is a way to change the account from NTL for receiving to BT for sending. I think that if you want auto-forwarding you may need to go back to dialing into NTL (and therefore sending back out through NTL) or alternatively you could set up an SMTP server as above, but that is much more complicated!

Thinking about it David, what you could do is change the outgoing server on the NTL account to mail.btopenworld.com, which should work provided you are connected to BT. Unfortunately if you then dial into NTL you (probably) won't be able to send mail.

I am looking for some software to convert wma files into mp3.
Had I look around the web and there is plenty of software around to do it but all seem to be on a trial/buy basis. Anyone know of any free software that will do the job or if I am going to have buy it any recommendations on what is the best to go for?
Regards
M

Thats what I've done Kayak. I will wait until an auto forward occurs to see if it works. I'll let you know!! Cheers

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Kayak, auto forwarding works as per set up I described above., so all sorted thanks for your help....

Help please on STREAMING. For some reason I am no longer able to get the Streaming working on AM Stockwatch or Charts. If I turn streaming on Charts, I just get a blank grey area instead of the chart. Is there some setting on my Internet Options I need to reset?

Thanks

Shammy,

It may be that you do not have the appropriate java plugin installed - you can get it for free by going to the following page: http://java.sun.com/products/plugin/

However, I would try restarting your pc first of all to see if this clears the problem.

If neither of these works, the please E mail me and I will advise further - ian@moneyam.com

Regards

Ian

thanks Ian, I had recently installed latest Java software - JAva 2 Runtime Environment SE V 1.4.201. I would have expected that, being the latest, would be streaming enabled. Any idea which Plug-In I would need to download for Windows 2000?

Shammy, something else you might want to consider: do you use a firewall? When I had ZoneAlarm installed I couldn't get streaming to work at all. Try disabling it if it is installed on your machine.

My right-hand screen (alas I am only endowed with 2x17" flat monitors) keeps periodically blacking out as if it is switching itself off, and then it comes back 'on'. This happens every few minutes, I've checked the connections which all seem fine. Any ideas??

Tia

Velocity, do you run off one graphics card? Have you opened the machine up to check the card is firmly seated? Have you tried switching the screens around on the connectors to see whether it's due to the screen or the base unit. Also can you swap the power supplies round?

Velocity, could be power savings? does the screen have built in power saving? check power save options in control panel.

Thanks guys will give your suggestions a try.

Having a major security concern at the moment. Have inadvertantly found that I have two printers set up on my machine. One is mine set up as LPT1 default. The other is a printer which I don't have and never have done and is called "Auto HP Deskjet 970CXI on PETER HARRIS" and is set up on a local port called "\\PETERHARRIS\HP970cxi". WTF is this. My name is not Peter Harris and neither do I know anyone by that name. Further, I just sent a print to this printer and it appears to print but obviously not on my printer. Anyone any ideas? Is there somewhere I can find out when this printer was set up on my machine? Has someone got into my machine and has printed stuff off??

HELP

Looking at "My Network Places" I seem to have two full directories of stuff as though someone has just transferred their computer to mine??