So out of all this, the biggest problem is email. They need to be able send and receive from Outlook regardless of location and in safety. So all we need is for the mail server to support
- SMTP-Auth
- Either SMTPs or SMTP with STARTTLS
- POP3S or IMAPS
Now all passwords are TLS encrypted and the SMTP send server can be used from anywhere. And all this is supported by Outlook already.
Now the Corporate sysadmins should be providing all this. But too often they don't. And the public ISPs should be providing all this, but they don't see the need yet. I've talked to BT Openzone about this and they don't see it as their problem to provide email. So I talked to BTOpenworld and they don't see it as *their* problem because they supply broadband, not roaming email. I worked in a computer security consultancy last summer. They were obsessed with control but couldn't manage to setup SMTPS and IMAPs for their engineers who all worked from home. Their smtp server only accepted email from inside the firewall.
So what is our notional suit to do?
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