So, yesterday, Purdue's IT staff decided to shut off --without warning -- access to the campus SMTP server for those of us who use it because of some undefined abuse. That didn't affect the majority of students or faculty because they use MS Office365. However, those of us who run our own customized client software were SOL.
Do they have an alternative for us? Nope. The help desk says the only solution is to switch to Office365. I, for one, will not welcome our new MS overlords.
@spaf Yuck. I have to use a VPN to do SMTP sends from cellular, even though I'm logging in with my university ID. But if I'm on residential WiFi, even someone else's residential WiFi, I'm golden. (I haven't tried hotspot WiFi yet.)
In the meantime, avoid sending email to my Purdue address as I cannot easily reply. I'll get the email, but if I reply it will be on some other account.
(This will become an example in my security classes of how NOT to address a security threat.)
@spaf@lifeatpurdue personally, i would die of embarrassment before admitting I couldn’t safely operate smtp for a bunch of students. (with us, it was either students, departmental IT or the CS dept who used to cause problems)
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