On Sun, Feb 02 2014, Leonidas Tsampros wrote:

> Having a device change a network, for example from work to home or more
> imporantly from work to a public hotspot (e.g. airport, starbucks,
> cofeehouses, libraries etc), can lead to "information leaking".
>
> For example, I do not want my Gnus to try connect to my job's mail server
> when at the home network.
>
> I was thinking that a regural DNS /etc/resolv.conf polling of the
> "search" parameter would be nice. So if we see "search corporation.com"
> you know I'm at WORK (so kill connection X and don't try and reconnect
> to server Y) but if it is set to "search home.lan" hey i'm at home now
> kill connections BLABLA and don't try to connect on server KOKO.
>
> I know that I'm talking about a different problem here, but IP changes
> usually comes from changing networks and I want my mail reader to be
> "location aware" since ip readdressing is not an everyday task.
>
> I hope I'm making sense :).

Yes, but as you point out this is totaly unrelated, and you can already
script that easily in elisp. I did that few years ago already.

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