On 8/17/06, pstreibig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm curious though, when you say your ISP blocks all outbound mail. How are they implementing this? I guess it's more academic curiosity, but did you try changing the default port for sendmail?
My ISP (Videotron) blocks all outbound port 25 connections that aren't going to their SMTP relays. This is an easy (if not draconian) way to solve huge zombie and spam-bot problems on their network. It also makes it easier for them to prevent abusers and throttle, monitor all mail sent from their network and to spy on me. Judging by what Eric was describing, it looks like Bell is doing the same thing. If Bell is simply filtering port 25 by dropping packets (as what Videotron does), he would see the connection timeouts that he's describing. Cheers, Chris _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
