On 2011-10-25 12:20 , Owen DeLong wrote: > > 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?
On that iToy of yours it is just a flick of a switch, presto. >> 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. And the final solution then tends to be setting up a VPN on port 443... Which only wastes one IP address, not several for different services. >> 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... Unless this 'NAT' is actually a firewall doing DPI on the packets, I can't see any reason why a VPN which just uses TCP over port 443 can't work in that situation. Greets, Jeroen
