On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 09:54:41AM -0500, Jeff S Wheeler wrote: > > I don't understand how this problem will be solved for folks who travel. > For example, many hotel access services redirect your SMTP TCP sessions > to their local smart sender these days, as quite simply, that is the > easiest way to prevent customers from being unable to send mail due to > relay restrictions on their office or ISP mail server.
>From http://spf.pobox.com/forsysadmins.html: "You should enable port 587 so your roaming users can inject messages even when their hotel is blocking port 25." We had this problem with users using wireless networks like T-Mobile hotspots, and worked around it with alternate ports. -- Nate "If you put a billion monkeys in front of a billion typewriters typing at random, they would reproduce the entire collected works of Usenet in about ... five minutes." -Anon. "Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and the Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare!" -Blair Houghton