That's interesting when you think about it. Please offer some evidence
other than your personal assurances that Cisco would restrict employees
from sending mail with cisco.com sender addresses from random locations
including their homes, customer sites, hotels, and even airplanes in
order to stop that abuse of their trademark.
Chill. Any Cisco employee who is going to be connecting to the 'net for
work will connect to cisco over a VPN from said random locations and
would have full access to cisco SMTP servers. Ok, so it's unlikely, but
perhaps they can't send from cisco.com from their cellphones without
some work (some cellphones support SMTP already, and probably some
support smtp-auth as well). It's unlikely, but perhaps a VPN or
smtp-auth connection won't be practical from 30,000 feet. If so, so
their mail in these very rare cases comes from airline.dom or
cellphonecompany.dom. Big deal?
Good examples of places where you just don't have much choice is when you're in
a sidewalk Internet cafe, or a public library, an airport waiting lounge kiosk,
or a cruise ship Internet cafe. Or you could be at a customer site and need to
mail, but need to do it (frequently the case) through one of their systems.
Big deal? Well, it IS a "big deal" if those mails simply can't be sent, or get
trashed and are never delivered.
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