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Gmail has offered the ability to specify different emails that you own as the “From:” address for a long time. This makes consolidating emails easy. When combined with forwarders, one account could handle the emailing of multiple addresses. However, some recipients see a very ugly “From:” address when using this method.

This is because since Gmail is now sending the email instead of the original mail server, it must include the actual Gmail address in the mail headers.

• Delivered-To: recipient@domain.com
• Return-Path: <real@gmail.com>
• MIME-Version: 1.0
• Sender: real@gmail.com
• Subject: email
• From: Chen Shen<new@cshen.ca>
• To: recipient@domain.com

A while ago Google introduced a new function that solves this by routing emails through the actual server of the alternate address. I’ve only recently set it up with my own account, and found the relevant information scattered around the web. This is a compilation of my search results.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Benjamin Franklin

How does a government eradicate civil liberties? By creating an evil and then pretending to solve it, if only people could give up a little of their freedom. Little by little, one imaginary evil after another, we suddenly find ourselves devoid of the freedoms we once enjoyed, and we have – each and every one of us – become the evil that the government targets.

The strawmen of today are internet criminals: scammers, identity thieves, child pornographers. With the permeance of the internet, they have become the dark, mysterious, scary monsters of our time: a readily available excuse for the government to curtail its population’s freedoms.

SFUNET-SECURE is a recently deployed network that supports 802.11a/b/g protocols as well as full WPA2/AES encryption. It also requires an 802.1x EAP/TTLS client for authentication rather than a web portal. While an initial setup process is required, users are encouraged to use SFUNET-SECURE where possible.

Actually it’s not all that recent, since SFU Surrey’s setup instructions are already out of date. This is the revised instructions for Windows.

Windows Vista Setup

1. Download and install the latest SecureW2 EAP Suite. This is needed to authenticate to the network.
2. Navigate to Control Panel > Network and Sharing Center > Manage Wireless Networks.
3. If SFUNET-SECURE is already listed, remove it.
4. Press the Add button (with a giant green plus sign beside it).
5. Select Manually connect to a wireless network.
6. • Network name: SFUNET-SECURE
   • Security type: WPA2-Enterprise
   • Encryption type: AES

   Check Start this connection automatically if desired, then click Next.