MacPhoneHome

I have tried the new Version (3.0) of MacPhoneHome and it works great. daggerquill's assessment is, frankly dead wrong. That's the beauty of the software: version 3.0 is must easier to use than the previous Version 2.x because you don't have to put in SMTP information anymore. The software somehow finds a way to bypass both the email relaying and authentication issues. It's really a very slick piece of coding and, for $29.95 one-time fee, is a real value. I recommend it to all Mac users!

It looks promising, but not terrbly useful at the moment. The install guide has a screencap of the setup window, and there are no fileds to specify username, password, alternate ports, or SSL/TLS security for the smtp connection. Since more and more ISPs are restricting access on port 25 as an anit-spam measure, it's unlikely that entering your smtp server will do much good if your computer is stolen. You'd need to geuss, ahead of time, the smtp server on the network where the theif is going to plug in. They need to put in some basic smtpauth fuctionality before they can expect anyone to buy it. Then $29.95 for MacPhoneHome combined with a year's subscription to a service like Mailhop Outbound from dyndns.org (if your company doesn't provide smtp on a random port) will be money well spent. Until then, it's really money down the drain, at least if the perp uses any national ISP.