How to navigate into Netvigator mail server when outside of HK

I have been having some odd problems sending mail when on the road. I prefer to use a standard programme such as Outlook or Eudora because I find web-based mail is a pain: it is slow and I cannot archive the results the way I can on a desktop or notebook computer.

I use Netvigator and for the most part I have been quite happy with the service. Things have been a bit odd recently, however. I remember a while ago, you described a process for logging onto the Netvigator service from outside Hong Kong.

It required changing the outgoing mail server from mail.netvigator.com to mail01.netvigator.com. That doesn't seem to work any more. Can you help?

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This is an interesting question because I only recently solved it for myself. I have to admit to cheating in the past. I have been setting the outgoing server to another mail server I use.

This cannot be done in Hong Kong because Netvigator recently cracked down on that in its efforts to stop spam. (I would venture to say something is working because there certainly seems to be a lot less of it these days, but we may not want to tempt fate here by boasting about this.)