[TriLUG] Port 25 blocked

[Stephen Hoffman]

Depends on who you are talking about...the first person to answer the
phone barely knows his own companies name..let alone how they run their
network.

Level2 support is slightly better in that they know that it is blocked,
but couldn't put their finger on the whole reason it was blocked...

Level3 (you're quite lucky if you make it this far) is where you're call
is transferred back to the US (Level1 and 2 are in Canada from what they
told me) and they'll sympathize with you all day, talk a little linux with
you, then give you a digital middle finger.  Claiming that it is for my
own protection and to prevent spammers from existing on thier network...I
agree with them on that count, but I was using them as a "smart relay"
anyway so I didn't do any direct delivery to any smtp servers other then
bellsouth's.  What I didn't understand is why would they block it
incoming?!?!  And none of them could give me a good answer on that count. 
(maybe someone here can)  I know of no spammer who propegated spam by
RECEIVING mail to port 25, but what do I know...I am a residential
customer..must know nothing!



> 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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