Sympatico getting slow--my 2 cents

[David Colebatch]

On Tuesday 26 October 2004 12:55, Srinivasan Krishnan wrote:
> Luckily, our Linux host based router/ firewall also ran a CIPE VPN to
> another location, which had a T1 line.  I rerouted outgoing SMTP traffic
> to go through the VPN and set the SMTP server there to relay mail from
> our subnet, and we didn't have any mail issues at all after that.


I route all my mail server connections (incoming and outgoing) over ssh back 
to the office.  

Gets around the problem of having to configure your server settings everytime 
you change networks and also protects my authentication (and mail data) from 
packet sniffing etc. when using WiFi.

Regards,

David
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