On Oct 25, 2011, at 3:04 AM, Jeroen Massar wrote: > On 2011-10-25 11:49 , Owen DeLong wrote: > [..] >> With this combination, I have not encountered a hotel, airport lounge, or >> other poorly run environment from which I cannot send mail through my >> home server from my laptop/ipad/iphone/etc. > > Ever heard of this magical thing called a VPN? :)
Sure, but, why deal with the overhead? Who wants to have to login to a VPN every time just to quickly retrieve or send some email? > > Indeed, that bypasses all those crappy local networks; and yes don't > worry your iToy also has more than ample VPN abilities. > Some do, some don't, and not all networks are any friendlier to VPNs than they are to port 25. > Set up once and never have to bother about special configurations or > getting around stupid filters. > Except where you have to or where there are so many layers of NAT that even VPNs don't work, or... I set up the 5 ports once and don't need any special configurations to get around stupid filters, stuff just works now. Owen
