[145846] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Outgoing SMTP Servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Tue Oct 25 06:25:40 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <4EA689BF.6060206@unfix.org>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 03:20:18 -0700
To: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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
