A post from Far Away

[desperance]

Am in the hot and steamy south, with all the windows open.

I have wifi, which I am determined not to use. QED.

I am not going to read my friends list; I have novels to read. And reading-glasses to read them with, for I am old.

I am most particularly not going to haunt my catsitters' LJs for any stray mention of the cats. That would be stalkerly behaviour, and I do not do that. Oh no.

I am genuinely and actually not going to be checking my e-mail, because I cannot remember the complicated URL I need for webmail access. My real life will be a blank to me for weeks'n'weeks. My Sooper-Seekrit Plan is that I will get a lot of work done in this interstice. Reality? Pfui. We snigger at reality, and commit humiliations upon it. I have already thought of the beginning to yet another story, tho' determined actually to finish some of those I've already started, tho' I was more properly hoping to advance the novel briskly...

Whatever. I shall write an opening paragraph, and then go for a walk. And buy coffee. I have been in this house for about twelve hours, mostly sleeping, and I have already drunk them out of coffee. *twitches*

Also, I just spotted a Mac-hair caught in my mini-mouse. Aww...

Comments

[durham-rambler.livejournal.com]

The "complicated URL" is www.chazbrenchley.co.uk/webmail which is simple and obvious enough for me not to worry about posting it here. What you do need to know are your user name and password, which I won't post here but can tell you if you can find a secure means of communication.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

When a man declares firmly that he does not wish to be bothered with mail while he is on holiday WORKING, it is impolite to pester him with information of this kind.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Is it? I'm sorry, I swear it had become something long and complicated the last time I asked. Musta misunderstood, for I am slow of study.

Unsurprisingly, then, the username and password that I thought I remembered aren't working either. I may phone you...

[desperance.livejournal.com]

PS - no need for the dreaded telephoning - I have remembered! I can has mail! I lasted, ooh, a full two days without it...!

*has no willpower*

*at all*

Further to my last

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Roger, I logged in fine and picked up my mail, using Horde, despite getting a Certificate Error warning advising me not to proceed; when I tried to reply, though (to a message from Jean, as it happens), I just got an error message back, to wit:

[SMTP: Invalid response code received from server (code: 503, response: All RCPT commands were rejected with this error: Sender verify failed Valid RCPT command must precede DATA)]

Is there anything I can do about this?

Re: Further to my last

[durham-rambler.livejournal.com]

Since you can receive email, I have sent you a message about how to get round this one. It includes information that I would rather not post on a public forum.