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Re: Monday, September 22, 2003
The Usual Arg. You use WiFi often, right? And you want to receive & send email while on the road? But your ISP blocks port 25 and only accepts email from devices directly connected to their network. What to do? 1) Ask (nay demand), that your ISP supports SSL email with SMTP Auth. That way you can use one system from anywhere on the web, your ID and Password are hidden behind SSL and the SMTPS, POP3S, IMAPS ports all route round dumb port 25 blocking. In Microsoft email readers support for this is about 2 checkboxes and 3 clicks, so the client side is not exactly hard. or 2) Use a boutique email service that does 1) but also does spam and virus blocking. or 3) Build 1) and 2) on your own server. It's craziness that people can't send email while on the road and using wifi. It's also craziness that people are collecting email on the road using unencrypted id/passwords. Maybe if we all keep asking for SSL/SMTP-AUTH, the ISPs will start providing it as a matter of course.
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