Agreed, if you own your own domain and are smart enough to secure your
own site, you want an ISP that gives you an open pipe and doesn't start
phone conversations with chatter about "unsupported operating systems".
I have been using Sentex for several years now (ever since Sympatico
started blocking 25 -- which they did on the Friday of an Easter long
weekend ... nice). Excellent service, only down once in 6 yrs for ~2hrs,
and more bandwidth than I am technically paying for.
http://www.sentex.ca
dbc.
Mark Rzepa wrote:
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.
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Mark Rzepa
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