BigPond in Australia blocks outgoing - you can only use their mail server.

I spoke to one of their "security experts" and ended up asking "what
if my remote mailserver was on port 80?". Long pause.

"Well the decision has been made."

"Well good, I'll change to port 80 - have a nice day."

brucee

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:59 AM, jfmxl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My ISP was blocking port 25 outgoing, so I could send mail to my own
> mailserver. It turned out that sendmail was listening on port 587 as
> well, so I use that instead.
>
> I assumed my ISP was blocking outgoing port 25 to stop captured
> machines from spamming. Why do you think yours stopped incoming port
> 25? Probably just easier to block it in both directions?
>
>

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