RE: [IMail Forum] AT&T blocking SMTP port?

[Len Conrad]

>My experience is that the ISP will not allow you to point to some other SMTP
>server for your outgoing email.  Receiving email from some other mail server
>is okay.  So, if you point your outgoing email to some other server the it
>will sit in your Outbox with the error that the SMTP server is refusing it.

ok, this is a Good Thing.  The ISP's are taking the initiative to block a 
path for spam originating from their dial-up blocks to other mail servers. 
Great, eventually we'll strangle those spammers.

Until then, use MAPS.

Thanks,
Len

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