on 9/30/05 2:55 PM, Lars Schou at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Many hotels (as well as airports, conference centers and so on) will force > your SMTP connection through their proxy server which won't know what to do > when Entourage attempts to authenticate before sending. Turn off > authentication in your account settings and you should be able to send OK. > > If you travel a lot, you might want to consider using this simple script > which I cobbled together with the help of Mickey Stevens. It toggles SMTP > auth on and off - note that if you have more than one email account > configured you'll need to tweak the script accordingly: > > tell application "Microsoft Entourage" > tell POP account 1 > if SMTP requires authentication is true then > set SMTP requires authentication to false > else > set SMTP requires authentication to true > end if > end tell > end tell
While this is helpful, it does not address the issue of your email going through the hotel system. A security issue I am not willing to deal with. I know of cases where they actually store copies of your email, why they do this, I have no idea, however, I don't like them hijacking my port 25. Here is how you normally get into earthlink telnet mx9.earthlink.net 25, or at least, one of their machines. However, they also offer the standard port 587 alt smtp submit port telnet smtpauth.earthlink.net 587 I am not 100% sure what hostname they want you to use, but there is no reason everyone should not just move to port 587, port 25 is going away on most providers as a way to combat spam, hotels will always hijack it, use the alt port. A better option is to set up a ssh tunnel and send through that, at least, then, you know you are secure to the server, though you need to have a provider that allows that, which most do not. -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Scott Haneda Tel: 415.898.2602 <http://www.newgeo.com> Novato, CA U.S.A. -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
