E-mail through firewall

2001-01-04 Thread Brett Randall
Hi all I have a problem. Optus@Home in Australia (one of two cable internet providers) have decided to firewall port 25 traffic (incoming) to their entire network except for their own mail servers. This means my mail server is virtually useless. They have blocked smtp traffic since their entire I

Re: E-mail through firewall

2001-01-04 Thread Kris Kelley
Brett Randall wrote: > I have a problem. Optus@Home in Australia (one of two cable internet > providers) have decided to firewall port 25 traffic (incoming) to > their entire network except for their own mail servers. This means my > mail server is virtually useless... Maybe ask the administratio

Re: E-mail through firewall

2001-01-04 Thread Brett Randall
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Brett Randall wrote: >> I have a problem. Optus@Home in Australia (one of two cable >> internet providers) have decided to firewall port 25 traffic >> (incoming) to their entire network except for their own mail >> servers. This means my mail server

Re: E-mail through firewall

2001-01-04 Thread Rod... Whitworth
On 05 Jan 2001 04:55:18 +1100, Brett Randall wrote: >>> I have a problem. Optus@Home in Australia (one of two cable >>> internet providers) have decided to firewall port 25 traffic >>> (incoming) to their entire network except for their own mail >>> servers. This means my mail server is virtually

Re: E-mail through firewall

2001-01-04 Thread Brett Randall
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What I have done is provide a ghost port for 25 and 110 on 8025 > and 8110, so when you are using a provider that blocks 25 and/or > 110, you set your email to use the alternate port, which is not > blocked. This still doesn't help incoming mail,

Re: E-mail through firewall

2001-01-04 Thread Phil Barnett
On 5 Jan 2001, at 17:07, Brett Randall wrote: > On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > What I have done is provide a ghost port for 25 and 110 on 8025 > > and 8110, so when you are using a provider that blocks 25 and/or > > 110, you set your email to use the alternate port, which i

Re: E-mail through firewall

2001-01-04 Thread Brett Randall
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 5 Jan 2001, at 17:07, Brett Randall wrote: > >> On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> > What I have done is provide a ghost port for 25 and 110 on 8025 >> > and 8110, so when you are using a provider that blocks 25 and/or >> > 110

Re: E-mail through firewall

2001-01-04 Thread Phil Barnett
On 5 Jan 2001, at 17:28, Brett Randall wrote: > On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On 5 Jan 2001, at 17:07, Brett Randall wrote: > > > >> On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > >> > What I have done is provide a ghost port for 25 and 110 on 8025 > >> > and 8110, s

Re: E-mail through firewall

2001-01-05 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
Brett Randall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 5 January 2001 at 17:28:56 +1100 > Yep, that's where the problem occurs. All of a sudden, incoming e-mail > is blocked and I have to work a way around it (the current way works, > but is messy and slow). Other than being dependent on yet another sys