From: "thartsell" <tom.hartsell@...>
Jun 15, 2010
Despite the claims by all the Indian tech support people at Earthlink, the =
Mailstation still works if you're replacing a dead mailstation with a new o=
ne using the same account. The arrogant Indians and their supervisors will =
tell you it can't be done. That's because the Cidco email server has been t=
aken down so they can't send the mailstation an message and set it up autom=
atically. But it can be done manually...
Let me clarify... Grandma age 90 =
had a Mailstation DET1 which finally became inoperable...
she had rubbed a=
ll the letters off the keys...and had used it for 10 years talking to her c=
hildren and grandchildren...
We purchased a Mailstation 120 off ebay... di=
d the paperclip holding down the function D and pulling the plug thing...
=
If you google "Is the Mailstation 150 hackable", you'll see the instruction=
with a paperclip to get into the mailstation setup screens...
From there=
, you can set everything as long as you know the password
for an existing a=
ccount. Just change the ISPaccount to the one you're replacing. There is no=
thing inside the machine that is hard coded...
Yes it does require an exist=
ing Earthlink account with a fixed DNS.
We now have a new machine for Gran=
dma. She's 90 now and doesn't have to learn how to type with her thumbs...
=
Hope this helps...
From: "musicalman77" <musicalman77@...>
Jun 16, 2010
Wow! Thanks for that info. Mom's is still plugging along so far; she is 92=
and terminal with end-stage renal disease, so I suspect the MailStation wi=
ll outlast her (although she has been like the "Energizer Bunny" and fooled=
everyone including her doctors for nine years now!). But I have wondered,=
"What will we do" if her machine goes out or if EL pulls the plug altogeth=
er on its existing users. It's nice to know there are options, doing a hac=
k an a new machine being one. Another, and I'm not sure if it's still vali=
d since the post was from 2008, but Patrick Forbes on this board had lined =
his mom out with a new, better and cheaper ISP for the service and made the=
machine work with it. You can read the appropriate post here:
(URL)
h.groups.yahoo.com/group/mailstation/message/872
Thanks again for the info=
!
~Jon
wrote:
thlink, the Mailstation still works if you're replacing a dead mailstation =
with a new one using the same account. The arrogant Indians and their super=
visors will tell you it can't be done. That's because the Cidco email serve=
r has been taken down so they can't send the mailstation an message and set=
it up automatically. But it can be done manually...
Grandma age 90 had a Mailstation DET1 which finally became inoperable...
ars talking to her children and grandchildren...
ation 120 off ebay... did the paperclip holding down the function D and pul=
ling the plug thing...
, you'll see the instruction with a paperclip to get into the mailstation s=
etup screens...
w the password
one you're replacing. There is nothing inside the machine that is hard cod=
ed...
to learn how to type with her thumbs...