Existing users, 
Now that a number of ISPs are blocking SMTP traffic (except to their own servers) due to spam concerns, how can this program work? I can tell you that with SBC, these 'stealth mails' will be blocked 100% of the time.
The developers are going to have to find another way to register location, perhaps using port 80 (www) and a database on their side.
From an -enduser- standpoint, while they mean well, I don't think this program is effective if it only uses SMTP mailed to an account that a user may not have access to (because mail's on their stolen powerbook).
It would be much better to have the vendor set up a website that the user can log into with a database of IPs where the powerbook 'was'.
MacPhoneHome
security app to track & locate stolen Macs
Version: 3.2.1
Did you try it? Read the documentation? - nymachead
Did you try it? Did you read the documentation?If you did, you would see that it explains the process in depth. I tried it all over the place, and from different ISPs and it worked like a charm. I got the info back from each place.
It finds some way to get through.
Very slick idea.
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Wednesday, May 04 2005 @ 01:00 PM PDT