[TriLUG] OT broadband question

[Robert Baker]

Jeremy,

Actually they don't block port 25 if it's to smtp.earthlink.net, but to any
other smtp server it's blocked.

This sucks as I have my own smtp server at my hosting company and can't use
it from home.

I hope they don't do this on my dsl line when it gets installed.



>>> Rob Baker <<<
Webcentric Applications Developer


-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Portzer [mailto:jeremyp at pobox.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 2:42 PM
To: trilug at trilug.org
Subject: RE: [TriLUG] OT broadband question


On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 14:32, Ryan Leathers wrote:
> Yes Sir,
> 
> Earthlink's policy is to block port 25 for all dial, DSL, and cable
> customers. Mindspring used to do this and when Earthlink absorbed them 
> a couple years ago they adopted the policy. The intent is to limit the 
> spam that might otherwise originate from Earthlink customers.
> 
> Details on their policy may be found at
> http://help.earthlink.net/port25/ Though some of the language on this 
> page seems to indicate that this is only for dial users rest assured 
> that the blocking is not transport technology dependant.  DSL and 
> cable users will "benefit" just as much as dial users from this 
> filtering.

I have Earthlink Cable through Time Warner, and port 25 is *not* blocked,
either outgoing or incoming.  I have not checked it with dialup.

--Jeremy

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