no net.

No net. No ETA on net, either, at this point. My mother says the Irish would rather lie to you than disappoint you, and we seem to be victims of that. Apparently there’s a waiting list for broadband access, and we have no idea how long it’ll be; they said it could be anywhere from a few days to a few weeks, which more likely translates to “a few weeks to a few months”. Nrf.

So I’m setting up a permanent gmail address. I may end up using it instead of any of my other email addresses in the long term, I don’t know. But for now, and for the foreseeable future, if you want to email me, do so at cemurphyauthor@gmail.com. I think for right now I’m just going to forward my other addresses on to that email. If I can figure out how. Bah humbug.

(ETA: I can’t. Anybody know how to set up a general forward on Outlook Express 6?)

2 thoughts on “no net.

  1. Assuming that outlook express is interacting with your other email accounts through the standard POP or IMAP protocols, setting up forwarding in that is not going to work – even if outlook were trying to be very clever, the best you’d get is that when it connected it would download your email and then resend it to your gmail account. Not what you want.

    You need instead to go into whatever control panel your webhosting provider (100megswebhosting) has that would allow you to add or change email addresses; that should allow you to set up email forwarding.

  2. That’s more or less what I was going to suggest. Outlook Express is just an e-mail client — you want to do that auto-forwarding on the server, assuming it’s available. If it’s not available, I guess you’re stuck.

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