I recently ran into a little problem, that I had to come up with a workaround for. See my mom takes her notebook to a few places pretty regularly, one has Comcast, one has AT&T. Comcast apparently blocks our server’s SMTP SSL port, and AT&T blocks our normal SMTP port, and that’s not something we can change, it’s our hosting company.
You can see how this could be a problem, unless she either had her own SMTP server running on her machine, or used a different outgoing server altogether. Enter Gmail, and it’s SMTP server using TLS instead of SSL. Problem supposedly solved, but I might not know for sure until next week.
Ugh, seriously, just stop it. I get that it might put a stop to SPAM, but it causes problem for legitimate users, just like copy protection on game discs does, the ones you are trying to stop, are the ones that find a way around it, it’s pointless, and makes no difference.
