On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 08:09:39 +0000 (UTC), Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: >>You, sure, how about the people who are not really computer literate and >>use SMTP AUTH to send their mail from various places? Remember that >>convinience almost always outweighs security with the general >>population. If it wouldn´t, the ICT market would not look like it looks >>today. > >That was solved 6 years ago. You let them use port 587 instead of 25. >http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2476.html
Another datapoint. That may have been "solved 6 years ago" in theory, but in practice it is not and that needs to be addressed before one can point the unwashed masses to this option. I am rumoured to be literate computer user and after many months of trying I cannot find a combination of providers and software which will accomplish this for me. I travel a lot and need this service. I have read rfc2476.html. Jeffrey Race