Greetings fellow monks,

I've just recently run into a rather annoying situation. I've been using Juno for modem connectivity from home over the last 6 months. Riding on this connection, I'd use one of a variety of POP3/SMTP email clients to read and send email. While there were several really annoying "issues" with this troublesome Internet access solution, it worked (most of the time) and was really inexpensive. However, just yesterday (give or take) the "wise" folks at Juno decided to cut off SMTP throughput. I can grab my mail with POP3 as usual, and Web surfing is just a "fast" as ever. However, I can't send any email.

My first thought was to switch to a different provider, but I can't find anything out there that's as cheap/free and provides SMTP thoughput. So here's my thought:

I'll write an SMTP server for my local machine (running Windows) and point my local email client to that local SMTP server. That server will accept the outgoing email, translate it to a port 80 request out to my Web site where a CGI (in Perl) will accept the data. That CGI will then pipe the data into sendmail from there.

Here's my series of questions:

Thanks.

-gryphon
code('Perl') || die;

In reply to SMTP Bypass/Proxy (a.k.a. Juno sucks) by gryphon

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