Redirecting mail (Re: Throttling mail)

Thu Mar 25 19:45:20 UTC 2004

> Everybody who's ever been a road warrior and trapped behind a hotel or ISP that
> gratuitously snarfs up port 25 and then mangles your mail knows what I mean...

That's why network guys set up port 587 SMTP support, or ...even 
worse... authenticated port-80 SMTP relays on an otherwise idle machine 
in your NOC. Since its not for general consumption it doesn't need to be 
easy or automatic as long as it works.

I have been to hotels that wouldn't allow SSH or telnet, and only 
allowed port-80.. hence the creation of monstrous kludges on top of the 
only open port.

YMMV,

Deepak Jain
AiNET