Re: [Asrg] seeking comments on new RMX article

[waltdnes@waltdnes.org]

On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 12:22:17PM +0100, Tom Thomson wrote

> Two separate questions there.
> 
> 1.  Yes, some hotels provide a mailserver and a guest email acount
> (for example hotels using Neos products).  Often these are send only
> accounts (horrible concept, isn't it).  However, the MUA in these
> cases is a machine owned and managed by the hotel (at least in all
> cases I'm aware of) and not the guest's laptop, and both the content
> From header and the envelope From header will be as Vernon described.
> 
> 2.  Yes, hotels provide internet connectivity for guests laptops.
> When they do so they usually expect the guest to connect to there
> normal mail provider.  This is a problem with providers that don't do
> authentication of some sort, but not the hotel's problem so they've
> not much incentive to solve it. Some do block port 25 so you have
> to use their outbound MTA, and that writes a suitable Received From
> header identifying the room, but I don't think these systems usually
> rewrite the envelope From address.

  This is where ssh-tunnelling and webmail-over-SSL come in *VERY*
handy.  If a company can afford to send an executive to a faraway city
and pay for a laptop, they can afford to install ssh on his/her laptop.

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
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1) Those who have effective spam-blocking
2) Those who wish they did
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