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I'd love to hear more about the outgoing SMTP service for people network hopping - I'm not sure I completely understand it and my curiosity is just getting the best of me. :)

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Buy a Data sim, what to do as outgoing SMTP ?

Vodafone for instance : http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=vodafone+smtp

Our service, one of a few, offers SMTP Auth'd or just relying on MAIL FROM: envelope header for outgoing email, utilising TLS, especially useful when on free-wifi.

Set your SPF settings to allow our sending IP in order to improve one's SPAM score.

The TLS route means that if one is sending to a GMAIL account then it is the recipient who can break the chain of trust.

If you have an SMTP receiver you can send from an open wi-fi access point in Karachi and know that only in server was the plain text processed. I guess that's not saying much but you can easily set it up for yourself.


Hopefully I'm understanding this correctly: you're creating a service that lets you send emails securely using your hosted SMTP, from anywhere in the world?

Useful for traveling on business, I would assume!


Yes, that's the one. There are more than one available. I'm not going to spam the name of mine. It's a service I wanted myself as an early adopter of handheld computers, outgoing SMTP is one of those things where the ISP does everything it can to make you use user@mobileisp.com and even when it is plain, remembering the settings if your phone gets wiped, is it mail.example.isp.com or smtp.example.isp.com. Hopefully it is a bit easier to remember the smtp service one uses.




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