How to send emails from home when using an Internet Service Provider (ISP)?
Many people have been having trouble sending email from home when using an Internet Service Provider (ISP) other than USYD’s extro. If you use broadband in particular, you will be connected to a different LAN, and people find that they can not send email when connected from home. The technical reason for this is that in an attempt to avoid rouge processes sending spam, most SMTP servers (the servers that send email) are set up to only allow people to send email if they are actually connected to the same local area network that the SMTP server exists on. Although this reduces SPAM, this causes all kinds of problems for sending email and all kind of horrid hacks have been set up – such as multiple mail client personalities. There is a much better solution – Virtual Private Networking (VPN). This will allow you to connect your laptop via your Bigpond broadband (for example) network at home, and happily send emails without making any technical configuration changes, but merely starting up
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