On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 03:33:33PM -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
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> Not practical. When I'm on the road (about 150 days a year) hotels and
> cafe wireless often block port 25 and 143. So I absolutely have to use a
But they're mostly not blocking port 587, which is where mail is supposed to
be submitted to. And if they _are_ blocking it, then they need to be hit
with a cluestick.
> direct SMTP.
Nobody should be using "direct SMTP" as such in this day and age. That's
what the submission port is for.
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