> > For example, I might be travelling somewhere and sending e-mail
messages
> > from an inhabitual location: a cruise ship Internet cafe, an
Internet
> > access kiosk above a post office location in Beijing, a coffee bar,
or
> > other such public-access location. In such a situation, I will
> > typically have NO control over what outgoing mail server is sending
my
> > e-mail message, and since my being there is temporary I obviously
don't
> > want to put a return address on my mail that would be connected with
the
> > location where I physically am at the time.
> That's a hopeless setting. If you carry a laptop, SMTP+AUTH to the
company server is the way to go, as Franck said already.
That's precisely the point. I am not using my habitual mail client, nor
am I using my own familiar webmail service. I am using a mail kiosk-type
service which allows me to enter a subject, my return address, a to
address, and the body of my mail.