Re: WIFI TEST

In article <evurb1lr1bv00tqjm0r28tlvfrj17duvtk@xxxxxxx>,
jjSNIPlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...

> I'm at a hotel in the middle of nowhere south of Boston, and XP claims
> there are nine free wifi's in range. Everything works great but
> Thunderbird, something having to do with smtp not working through
> other isp's. Webmail is a nuisance.

It's not Thunderbird's fault per se. ISPs nowadays don't let you use
their outgoing mail servers unless they're confident that you're
actually a customer of theirs, either by having logged into your POP3
account first, and/or by actually being on their subnet. If you're
using somebody else's WiFi node at random, you're not on your own ISP's
subnet, so they assume you're a bad guy trying to use their SMTP server
as a spam relay. Unfortunate but necessary.

Solutions are to use webmail (which I agree isn't ideal) or, preferably,
to establish a VPN connection to your box back home. Once you jump
through the latter hoop, you can use a virtual desktop client to
actually work on your machine at home. That's especially nice because
you don't end up with some of your mail being stuck on your laptop while
on the road.

-- john

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