On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 09:31:34AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 22:38:07 -0400, Sean Lester wrote: > > > That's it. I didn't think the ISP would block outgoing port 25. > > Unfortunately, quite a lot seem to do it. it's a lazy and lame "solution" > to spam trojans. Other ISPs forward all port 25 connections to their own > SMTP server, so your mail may not be delivered directly, but it is > delivered. > > Even if port 25 isn't blocked or redirected, it is often worth using your > ISP's relay even if you have a broadband connection. Some ISP's block > incoming mail from IP ranges allocated to broadband users as an anti-spam > measure. >
Ha. In my case, my ISP (Optimum Online) gets blacklisted from AOL and a third of Taiwan (among other places). So sending mail through their mail-server is like suicide. What I do is to set up an SSH tunnel to my University mail-server and bounce my mail through port forwarding... W -- "Yan Can Cook" and George Lucas have a new joint-venture web site, titled "eWok". Sortir en Pantoufles: up 42 days, 16:37 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
