Using work/school email from home

[ghaynes]

I am a computer engineering student and I need to send regular email through
the schools SMTP server. This works fine when I have my laptop on campus,
but when I go home my ISP blocks outgoing traffic on port 25. I've gotten
around this by creating an SSH tunnel to one of the universities unix server
and forwarding the SMTP traffic through the tunnel. I had to setup a thrid
party tool (putty) to do this and have to manually open a connection every
time I want to send an email. I'm sure this is a problem for a lot of people
who may want to connect securely to work or school emails remotely and I'm
also sure 99% of your users have no idea how to do this. Automatically
creating an SSH tunnel to a trusted machine for sending SMTP may be a useful
feature for more people than just me (anyone with an ISP that blocks outgoing
port 25 traffic)

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[Roady [MVP]]

I don't really see this as a requirement/new feature for Outlook but more of
an ingenious way to work around the fact that your ISP is blocking port 25;
it does this for a reason. Why all the fuss and not just use the SMTP server
of your ISP instead?

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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I am a computer engineering student and I need to send regular email through
the schools SMTP server. This works fine when I have my laptop on campus,
but when I go home my ISP blocks outgoing traffic on port 25. I've gotten
around this by creating an SSH tunnel to one of the universities unix server
and forwarding the SMTP traffic through the tunnel. I had to setup a thrid
party tool (putty) to do this and have to manually open a connection every
time I want to send an email. I'm sure this is a problem for a lot of
people
who may want to connect securely to work or school emails remotely and I'm
also sure 99% of your users have no idea how to do this. Automatically
creating an SSH tunnel to a trusted machine for sending SMTP may be a useful
feature for more people than just me (anyone with an ISP that blocks
outgoing
port 25 traffic)