Rogers only blocks port 25 on residential accounts. If you have a business or Small-Business account, the port is open. I offer this email as evidence...
-----Original Message----- From: John Van Ostrand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28-Apr-06 9:32 AM To: TAUG - Tech Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] Port 25 blocked On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 08:03 -0400, 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. Receiving email has an easy solution too. Many of our customers are either Rogers and Bell. We provide domain hosting services for them and configure their servers to pop in for email and deliver it to their email servers using Fetchmail. We've been doing it for them for years. It does cost a little more (they have to pay us) but they like having us taking care of their Internet related matters things for them. Often we are already taking care of their email server anyway so it's a single call if they have a problem. Reza's solution for sending email is usually the best. If you want to use a specific non Rogers, non Sympatico email server as a smart host then use SMTPS for sending email (port 465) or use MSA (port 587). > 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...) Rogers is now offering static IP address ranges (5 usable IPs I think) but it costs $99/month. > 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. -- John Van Ostrand Net Direct Inc. Chief Technology Officer 564 Weber St. N. Unit 12 Waterloo, ON N2L 5C6 map [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 519-883-1172 ext.5102 Linux Solutions / IBM Hardware Fx: 519-883-8533 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
