Re: [PLUG] OT: Verizon POP upgrade

[John Ashmead <john.ashmead@ashmeadsoftware.com>]

Verizon only supports Windoze?

I'm running a Mac & get my DSL from Verizon.   I did have to call  
technical support during the setup but after that is has been fine,  
beyond the outages they arrange to make sure you stay grateful for  
non-outage time.

Cheers,

John

On Oct 19, 2005, at 2:50 PM, Art Alexion wrote:

> I know there are a few verizon subscribers so I thought I'd pass this
> on.  As Verizon software only supports Windows, I usually ignore the
> stuff that they offer me occasionally via email.  They recently  
> offered
> some premium Yahoo stuff free with the standard Verizon account and I
> checked it out.  It is worth it.  You have to sign up on a windows
> computer, but once you do there is some good stuff that applies to  
> Linux
> access as well.
>
>    1. With the upgrade, you get 2 gigs of mail space on the server  
> *for
>       each email address* instead of 10 MB shared by all sub-accounts.
>    2. Server based spam filtering into a "bulk" mail folder.  You can
>       choose to check this via the web interface for false  
> positives, or
>       have it forwarded to your POP account.
>    3. There may be more but the server space is worth the fuss of
>       installing this on a windows machine.
>
>
> Once you accept the offer and set it up, you have to make the  
> following
> changes in your MUA:
>
>    1. POP server changes from incoming.verizon.net to
>       incoming.yahoo.verizon.net.
>    2. POP server no longer supports secure authentication.
>    3. login user name changes from <user> to <user>@verizon.net.   
> (e.g.
>       instead of "art.alexion" its "art.alexion@verizon.net".
>    4. SMTP server changes from outgoing.verizon.net to
>       outgoing.yahoo.verizon.net.
>
> Do not follow the MUA configuration instructions on the web site.
> Instead, make the above changes.
>
> I thought I'd send this as Verizon/Linux subscribers may not have
> otherwise looked into this offer.
>
> --
>
> _______________________________________
> Art Alexion
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>
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> The attachment -- signature.asc -- is my electronic signature; no  
> need for alarm.
> Info @ http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/ 
> signature.asc.what.html
>
> Key for signed PDFs available at
> http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/ArthurSAlexion.p7c
> The validation string is TTJY-ZILJ-BJJG.
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