[TriLUG] Port 25 blocked

[Aaron S. Joyner]

Once again, Good News from Intrex.Net!  :)

We're also rolling out the 3M/368k DSL service, and would be glad to 
have you (and other TriLUGers bit by the same problem) as a customer.  
We have worked up a special package available only to TriLUG members, 
specifically to address this problem.  The service goes something like this:
3Mbit / 384Kbit - $54.99 / month with a blocked dynamic IP address (no 
servers, or business customers)
Residential Static IP address - $5 (good for VPN, remote management, etc)
Unblocked Static IP address - $10 (good for hosting servers, mail, dns, 
web, etc)
Total cost for what you were expecting from BellSouth, $64.99 / month.  
3 Megabits download, 384Kilobits upload, and the freedom to run what 
ever servers you'd like.

We are not normally going to offer an unblocked IP address to 
residential customers.  Non-TriLUG members, to get the same benefit, 
would have to subscribe to the business class service (which we will 
sell you on a residential line, by the way).  The business class service 
will be a bit more expensive, but comes with a wide-open static IP 
address.  It will still be significantly cheaper than the BellSouth 
business class service.

We're also offering two other slower DSL services, including a budget 
256Kbit / 128Kbit service for $34.99 / month, as well as a standard 
1.5Mbit / 256Kbit service for $49.99 / month.  The same static IP 
address layouts apply for these services, as well as the option to get 
an unblocked static IP address for only $10 / month.

If anyone has any questions about the new services, or the other Intrex 
TriLUG discounts, feel free to give me a call at our offices (919) 
573-5488 x102.

Aaron S. Joyner
System Administrator
Intrex.Net Internet Services

Stephen Hoffman 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?
>
>TIA
>Steve
>  
>