From: Steven F Siirila (sfstc.umn.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 21 2007 - 08:58:49 CDT

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On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 08:30:47AM -0400, Terry Carmen wrote:
> Frank Gruellich wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >some of my mail account users recently noticed while using public WLANs
> >in hotels or something, that port 25 is either entirely blocked or
> >
> The easy way would be to give them webmail.

Users have no business running MTAs out of a hotel. They should be
using the standard mail submission port (587), preferably with STARTTLS.

> The cool way would be to tunnel SMTP and IMAP/POP/etc. via an SSH
> tunnel. That's works beautifully from almost everywhere I've tried it.

To me, the "cool" way is to use standards.

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