On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Tzahi Fadida wrote:
> HI,
> how many ISPs are we talking about? since u can probably make a simple
> script vbs/perl/whatever that uses http to send current nslookup and get
> xml/text data from your company web site which includes all known ISPS
> smtp addresses. this way, any addition of ISP can be realized quickly
> and be added to ur database by analyzing unknown http get call to ur
> xml/text page.
> or if u still can't manage, just build a simple php page with execute
> code to change the smtp address automagicaly in the
> registry(windows)/mail settings
> what do u think?
Let me see if I understand this correctly:
a vb script on the client ('client-scirpt') accesses a well known address
on the mail/web server ('server-script'). server-script is basically a
table that gives the address that should be used in the address of the
client. It is trivial to write such a scirpt. I don't think that it
exposes any sensetive information (except, maybe, the fact that your sales
persons are allowed to connect from certain points).
The client script runs with the permissns of the current user, and changed
the smtp server of the current user. What I said would have been nice, had
there been such one default smtp server. But I believe that Outlook has
a different smtp server for each account, and no default smtp server
(unlike, e.g. mozilla).
This will still require the sales person to run a program (=click an icon)
after connecting), but I'm sure that there is a way of hooking the
execution of such a script into existing connection.
--
Tzafrir Cohen
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