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Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry
why in the world is Microsoft allowing the carrier to intercept SMTP messages and send them through its server? This may sound like a helpful feature if your SMTP server is down, but it isn't. If I wanted my email going through my carrier's SMPT server, I'd set it to do so.
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It sounds to me like they were trying to do a good deed for the
novice user, by automatically redirecting SMTP traffic to the carrier's SMTP relay, whenever the user's ISP SMTP server refused to accept the job for anti-SPAM/security reasons. But they've stuffed up the implementation, and there's a bug. Oooops.
I can see what they were thinking -- I know dozens of Windows Mobile phone users who wouldn't know how to set the carrier SMTP server for themselves. Perhaps one of the carriers even put them up to it, by asking for the feature for their customers.
But I don't really like the idea of my outgoing email being sent via a server other than the one I requested. Email is typically vulnerable to interception, but still...
If they were being polite, as soon as the user-specified SMTP relay refused a job, the phone should ask something along the lines "sorry, mail.x.com refused to relay your email, would you like to use mail.yourcarrier.com instead?" with a checkbox option for "always do this". Something like that which fits on the screen, anyway!