I have 15 people using Mindspring as a dial up provider at my company. We
are going to continue using them and have worked around the issue by
configuring two Internet email services in Outlook (at least until we find a
new provider).
Outlook will fail-over from one smtp server to another cleanly as long as it
can find the server and get a denied service response. With the filters
Mindpsring is using it was neccessary to set Mindspring's mail server as the
primary smtp, otherwise the user gets a "Server not found message", looking
for our imail server. Then when on our network, the Mindspring server
denies the relay and the user fails over to the imail server.
I am extremely dis-appointed in Mindspring, up until this issue I have found
their service to be excellent. We are getting ready to implement VPN access
to our network and I have to wonder what other ports they might start to
squash...
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Craig A. Isdahl
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 12:53 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] SMTP Connection Problem
Mindspring apparently doesn't think it'll hurt their business. I can
personally think of 10-20 individuals off the top of my head that
this will hurt. I use them as a dialup from home and have been very
happy with the service, but they seem ok to have me go
elsewhere... oh well.
Below is a snippet of an email dialog I had with them, it is the last
message I received from them on the topic.
***** email from Mindspring Technical Support *****
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date sent: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 00:47:38 -0400 (EDT)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: STMP port 25 access shutdown (990724-
5829842)
Unfortunately we will never open port 25, the reason deals with
spam and abuse. As far as another provider, I'm not sure which
ones do not block port 25. I would suggest you give them a call
and find the one the correctly suits your needs.
***** END EMAIL *****
** --- On 27 Jul 99, at 8:59, Grant Griffith wrote: --- **
> I have seen some others begin doing this also. Is there something we can
> do about this? I e-mailed one place last night about this because their
> users are getting a relay denied when trying to send mail to us.
>
> Grant Griffith
> http://www.ei8htlegs.net
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: "## Dusty Carden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 07:36:02 -0500
>
> >Mindspring is implementing filters on outbound traffic
> for port 25.
>
> Dusty
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Thomas Loyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 7:16 AM
> Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] SMTP Connection Problem
>
>
> > Brian:
> >
> > The ISP in question is Mindspring and I have the problem with any pop3
> > client not just Outlook. It seems likely that this is the problem. I'll
> call
> > them today and go over it with them. It fits. I'll also review what spam
> > filters are in place on the Imail host. If it is Mindspring, they'll
> > need
> a
> > new ISP.
> >
> > Tom Loyal
> >
> >
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