re Sending emails at hotspots
Wayport: use mail.wayport.net as the smtp server name T-moble: use your regular smtp server name, t-moble spoofs it.
Woah! That's a recipe for disaster. Do they both have absolute knowledge of who and what is connecting to them? Aren't these effectively open relays then?
BTW Matt, what is SMTP AUTH and how does that work/help?
In Outlook or OE, "This server uses authentication" followed usually by "Use same id-password as for pop3". In the simplest case, when sending email the server asks for an id and password before it will accept email destined for other places. Given that the sender is now validated, it's then OK to allow email relay from any source. Which in customer terms means being able to use this same email server regardless of how or where you connect to the internet. Home, work, hotspots, whatever.
The fly in the ointment is that typically both pop3 and smtp ids and passwords are passed in plain text. Since it's comparatively trivial to log every packet on a wifi hotspot, you *MUST* hide these behind SSL.
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