On 11/2/06, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
That is also the achilles heel of SIP. I've now signed up for several of these providers, but the confirming email containing the connection details never arrives, and there is no place where one can actually contact a human to straighten things out, AND their software won't allow you to repeat the process. My guess is that verizon is (its a fact they filter according to their broken definition of spam and you can't opt out without changing your email address) out these emails "from the competition" to preserve their stranglehold on their long distance income. Because of this, I have yet to make a phone call with anything but skype. If someone knows howto make ekiga work, without having to screw around with the confirming emails, please educate me.
It sounds like you have more of a problem with your ISP than anything else. Most registrations for service require some sort of email verification even if they are free. It is a necessary evil. I would suggest getting a webmail address if Verizon is pulling shenanigans like that. Unfortunately, if your provider is blocking registration emails, you are presented with a catch-22. One method of getting around that is to use a throw-away email account generator like http://www.mailinator.com/ to either get a more permanent webmail address or for the service registration itself. Ekiga is quite good in that it allows me to simultaneously login to multiple SIP accounts at once and I have used it fine with Gizmo and FWD as well as the SIP account that you can get through ekiga.net . There is some good info on setting up ekiga with ekiga.net or some other SIP provider in the manual at http://ekiga.org/documentation/ekiga.pdf /Mike
