"Simon P. Lucy" wrote:
> At 11:11 28/02/2001 +0100, Ben Bucksch wrote:
> >Simon P. Lucy wrote:
> >
> >>Relaying is allowed for the correct IP addresses, so mail sent from
> >>any account is fine so long as the smtp server is correct for the
> >>current connection. The trick would be to capture or have the user
> >>specify the subnet for each ISP and have a vestigial ISP account. At
> >>the time of sending the current list of IP addresses (a machine may have
> >>more than one, their local LAN IP address and any Internet routed
> >>address), would be matched against the ISP subnets and the currently
> >>valid SMTP server chosen accordingly.
> >
> >hm, good idea, that would even work for my setup :-).
>
> Two votes, almost a quorum :-).
Add mine to that. I like this idea of Mozilla having some concept of
what "ISP" it's connected to, independent of the actual account being
used, and (if possible) being able to automatically infer that in some
way from the network setup.
For example, on my laptop I maintain two main mail accounts, each with
its own POP server; in my various travels I can potentially switch
between several different networks/ISPs: networks in three different
corporate offices (with slightly different setups for each), a home
network, one or more dial-up networks from hotels, etc., plus any
networks I might connect to at trade shows or customer sites. It would
be great to be able to just say "I'm on X network" (or even have Mozilla
figure it out automagically) as opposed to having to go in and change
SMTP servers by hand.
(I should note that other things in Mozilla might depend on the network
as well; proxy servers are an obvious example. So this is really a
special case of having some concept of "network I'm attached to" that
then drives other settings as appropriate.
Frank
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