RE: [cobalt-users] OT: ISP's and Port 25 blocks

["Greg O'Lone" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Smith
> Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 8:12 AM
> To: cobalt-users
> Subject: [cobalt-users] OT: ISP's and Port 25 blocks
> 
> 
> Greetings list,
> I'm sure that many of you are aware of have been directly affected by
> various ISP's blocking port 25....
> About 95% of our clients are small businesses which we allow for them
> to relay through our servers (smpt=mail.their-domain-name.com). Within
> the last few days, we began receiving calls from our clients that they
> couldn't send email - and it took us a few hours to realize this was
> due to a local ISP initiating a port 25 block for their residential
> users. We contacted the ISP in question, and were told that this was
> becoming the norm, regardless of the fact that they were essentially
> blocking *our* clients from *our* services - the service for which our
> clients are paying.
> We're looking for a solution to this - obviously we need to keep port
> 25 active on our servers in order to receive mail from outside sources
> (correct me if I'm wrong, but please don't flame).....but 
> there must be
> an alternative to this - perhaps mapping the smtp port to an unused
> port?
> I'm open to suggestions, and need a solution quickly.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Mike
> 

Mike,

If any of you are interested in the official word about this from
Mindspring/Earthlink, go to Google and query for:

mindspring mail server spam

The first item called "Support Center", click CACHED and then cancel
(about 6 times) to the authentication dialogs. It will finally let you
in to read the page.

--
Greg O'Lone, President
Stretched Out Software, Inc
http://www.stretchedout.com