I specifically asked when I signed up a year ago if it was OK to run a mailserver and they said it was. Again when I was checking on the upgrade I mentioned the webserver and the mail server that I was running and was told that it was no problem. Only after upgrading and having the SMTP blocked and escalating through 3 levels of chairwarmers (each level said you shouldn't be blocked) was I told too bad so sad we lied, new policy outlaws on residential class DSL. We can't help you unless you buy a business class DSL. I asked how much that would cost and they couldn't even transfer me to the sales folks. Finally get to a Business class sales person who tells my they can't help me because I have a residential class line. In short they don't care. This is the abbreviated version, the total time I spent on the phone with the BS clowns clocked in at just under 5 hours over 3 days.
DS -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian A. Henning Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 12:22 PM To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list Subject: RE: [TriLUG] Port 25 blocked Just out of curiosity, what do they say when you ask them to explain and/or unblock the port? ~B > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Dave Sorenson > Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 12:15 PM > To: 'Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list' > Subject: RE: [TriLUG] Port 25 blocked > > > They got me on this too.. Workarounds would be fantastic. > > DS > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Hoffman > Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 11:57 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [TriLUG] Port 25 blocked > > Well, > Bellsouth suckered me into upgrading to thier extreme package and > unbenknownst to me they are blocking incoming and outgoing ports 25, > 139 and a few other odd ones. I could care less about samba, but I'm > more worried about mail. > Has anyone on the list had to work around a closed port 25, and > how did you do it. I've already looked into MOXY since I have access > to several servers, but I don't want to create my personal accounts on > these machines. > So I could switch sendmail to listen on port 26 and have a different > machine mail proxy the messages to me. > Another thought I had was to setup some sort of mail collection > server that received [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put it into a spool file that I > pop'd into, pulled down and fed to sendmail or procmail. > Does anyone else have any other suggestions, what has worked best > for others? > > TIA > Steve > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member > Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member > Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
