[TriLUG] Port 25 blocked

[David Rasch]

On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 11:56:44AM -0400, Stephen Hoffman <srhoffman at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> 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?

This alone caused me to switch to Earthlink's cable service.

David