RE: [Asrg] seeking comments on new RMX article

["Eric D. Williams" <[e-mail]>]

Think policy boundary on the home network (firewall).
Think SMTP is SMTP to recieving host from your laptop.
Think mailbox access is web-mail to home office for example.


-e

On Tuesday, May 06, 2003 7:53 PM, Bob Atkinson 
[SMTP:[e-mail]] wrote:
> > Another common case involves people traveling.  If you plug your
> laptop
> > into the network of a hotel or one of your consulting clients, you
> > might prefer to use an envelope and From header address at your home
> > systems instead of [e-mail] or
> [e-mail].
>
> I'd like to understand this scenario better, as at present I am
> confused.
>
> Among my confused thoughts are the following questions: What were the
> steps that led to a mail address and mail server in my hotel room? Which
> part of the hotel's policy forced me into that? Does any hotel actually
> do this? In your understanding, which SMTP server is the STMP client on
> my laptop talking to in order to send it's mail?
>
> I would have expected instead that having got IP connectivity, my mail
> reader on my laptop would have connected back to my normal home (e.g.:
> pop3.mycompany.com/smtp.mycompany.com) and then sent and received mail
> through there as usual, resulting in the normal From headers, etc.
>
> 	Bob
>
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