18 Apr
2006
18 Apr
'06
7:57 a.m.
On 18-Apr-2006, at 20:44, Simon wrote:
1). Many of our business customers have a laptop and use jetstream at work and a vodaphone connection for roaming, making our authenticated SMTP servers very handy for these (noramlly) non-tech type people.
Many hotspots and other places of drop-in connectivity either block port 25 connections outbound altogether, or redirect them to a local MTA. Setting up roaming business customers to use port 25 to send mail seems like a recipe for helpdesk fun. I submit mail using SSL-wrapped SMTP on port 465, and the server I connects to relays based on successful SMTP AUTH. I travel a bit, and it works for me. Joe