[TriLUG] Port 25 blocked

[Brian A. Henning]

Just out of curiosity, what do they say when you ask them to explain and/or
unblock the port?

~B


> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org]On
> 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: trilug-bounces at trilug.org
> [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf
> Of Stephen Hoffman
> Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 11:57 AM
> To: trilug at trilug.org
> 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 *@domain.com 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
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