This is an easy solution for sending email, however if you have your own domain name that you want to receive e-mail for, then Sympatico is not a good choice. Rogers is also starting to block port 25, using the same excuse. And they a have"no exception" rule. This is my big problem with Sympatico and Rogers. I don't blame these providers for using such a tactic to curb spam, since spam is such a huge problem to try and control, it's unfortunate that legitimate people who know how to secure and operate an e-mail server are also blocked. The only solution for these people is to go with another DSL provider.
I also like the benefit of having not just a static IP, but an entire /29 subnet assigned to me so I can run several services. I have 1 IP for my HTTPS server, and another IP for OpenVPN to listen on port 443 as well (I've been to too many places where only port 80 and 443 are allowed out of their network, so this is the only way I can VPN back to my house to connect my softphone to my PBX, among other things...) Competition in the ADSL market is a very good thing, I only wish there was competition in the Cable ISP market as well, so I could get a redundant ISP that isn't Rogers. <quote who="Reza - Asterisk Enthusiast"> > RE: [on-asterisk] High speed internetHello to all folks who's port 25 is > blocked... > > I've noticed some postings on people changing and jumping from different > ISP's because their port 25 is blocked. I run on Bell Sympatico and on > my ultra fast DSL, the port 25 is exclusive only to SMTP servers and does > not let you connect to other SMTP servers. > > This is a painful change, but necessary as per their claim - to prevent > spam & having spyware & malaware generate automatic e-mail from innocent > folks computers. With the tough regulations on SPAM in North America & > West Europe, and no regulations on SPAM from other parts of the world - > truly makes things difficult for legit users like those in this group. > > I think jumping to another provider is really not necessary. Your Linux > box has amazing capabilities to do what you need to do. > > Anyhow...... what I have done to work around my port 25 at home is quite > simple. Instead of having the * machine behave as a mail server trying to > send out e-mail directly to the world, I've configured it (the mail > server) to act as a smart host, routing ALL my * related email, to my > Sympatico e-mail account, through SMTP authentication (of course). All > e-mail going out, passes through Symaptico mail servers. You cannot > simply relay mail to Sympatico M.S. As long as you get your Linux mail > server, behaving like an e-mail client, connecting to Sym. M.S., your > e-mail will go out. > > When this is done, you can create as many users on your Linux box and have > those users send mail out. > > Hope this helps. > > Cheers! > Reza. > -- Mark Rzepa CCIE Security #9600
