At 12:55 AM 2/27/2003 -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
May I add running this through SSH? That is what I do. All my outgoing SMTP and incoming POP is through SSH to my home server, protecting me from such nefarious operations.Yup, some 802.11 wireless "hotspot" networks block port 25 as well. Very annoying. My personal workaround to this is to have a personal server tucked away at a colo facility, which among other things, runs a SMTP server listening on port 2025 (to get around the port 25 blocking insanity). This SMTP server will relay e-mail on my behalf, no matter when I am in the Internet, after my laptop uses STARTTLS and AUTH to authenticate myself to my SMTP server.
I even found one 802.11 hotspot (WISPer), that did not have the SSH port blocked and I could have done all my work without paying (did anyway, as I want to encourage hotspot deployments).