There are a couple of things you can do. Easiest is to have an ISP that allows you to authenticate to their mail servers regardless of what network you are on. This can be set up in Mail.app's preferences for your account. But if your ISP doesn't do that... Most difficult way is to run your own copy of sendmail - on your iBook (assuming you are running OSX) and use "localhost" as your outgoing mail server. This is what I do and I rarely have problems. However, if you are not familiar with the unixy stuff, this probably won't work well for you. Once you get it working though - whee! Here's a cook book on how to run your own sendmail http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/09/10/sendmail.html Anders On Tuesday, January 28, 2003, at 10:12 PM, Pam Sorooshian wrote: > I find them here and there - I can see that I'm receiving a signal - > but usually can't connect. There is one place I can connect and can > surf the net and receive email, but I can't send email. Any > suggestions about that? > > -pam