>Only if you have IMail set up to allow it ("Ignore source IP"). Prodigy
>started that silly game of proxying IPs, and AOL took over the
>concept. Therefore, a lot of people do not use the IP as a security
>measure. We found this out the hard way about 6 years ago when we were
>developing some of the first dynamic web pages.
Does this mean that AOL users may have trouble connecting to IMail web-mail if "Ignore
source IP" is unchecked? The only reason I am slightly concerned is the potential for
abuse by a network admin who has access to the urls visited by users. Generally, this
is not an issue (and I admit, a pretty cool feature on webservers), but what is the
point of an IMail SSL connection if the e-mail session can be hacked so easily? Of
course, I am trying to balance security vs. ease-of-use...
>>Hotmail will not allow you to do this. Is this a bug or a feature? Can
>>this behavior be prevented?
>
>It's a feature that you have enabled. It can be prevented by going back to
>the default, and unchecking "Ignore source IP" in the web messaging settings.
Does this mean that hotmail is rejecting AOL users?
Thanks for the insight!
-Stein Langlie
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