On 10/3/05 5:37 AM, bobgir2004 deftly typed out: >> I see what has been recommended and done. This may be fairly specific to >> Earthlink but certainly seems worthwhile if it accomplishes the privacy >> mission. I guess what¹s not crystal clear to me though is why this works! > > Do you have time/are you interested in answering this question?
Mail transfer usually occurs on TCP port 25. Since in some locations (like hotels) this, and other standard ports, get hijacked and siphoned through their proxy server, your email is traveling through the hotel's servers before reaching your mail server. As someone pointed out, the hotels sometimes use this to keep record of messages that are sent from their systems. This means that they store the mail you sent (that they hijacked) on their systems (probably for some legal reason). Changing the sending options on your email client to send through a port other than 25 helps to alleviate this intrusion on your privacy. Of course, your mail is never "private" unless it's encrypted. -Remo Del Bello -- "I have the heart of a small boy--and I keep it in a jar on my desk" - Stephen King -- 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/>
