[TriLUG] Suggestions for mail hosting.

[Dave Sorenson]

Their sales guys wont tell you about the blocking nor will level 1 chair 
warmers. They block incoming and outgoing 25. Port 80 was open, but be 
careful not to pull too much traffic.

I had an account before they started blocking and had open 25 until I 
upgraded my speed. They lied to me and said that I would still be able 
to use incoming port 25 as my original TOS allowed it as long as I was 
secure and not an open relay. I "upgraded" and spent 4 days on the phone 
until they finally admitted that they were blocking and there was noting 
I could do except upgrade to business class. When I tried to do that 
they would not do it because my line was my residence... they would not 
take my money. I'm with Time Warner now.

The sad thing is I found a service that would forward my incoming mail 
to port 26 and everything worked fine for the 3 months I stayed with 
them til I moved and switched. Their efforts were circumvented in less 
than a half an hour.

BS from BS I guess.

Dave

J.C. Jones wrote:
> Interesting,
>
> Moments ago, I was on the phone to bellsouth/at&t about their dsl 
> service and the rep said that no ports were blocked. Maybe I need to 
> check this out more carefully. ( actually he said he knew of no ports 
> being blocke, but he did say you could run a webserver on the service 
> I was asking about -- fastaccess dsl extreme)
>
> jcj
>
> Brian Daniels wrote:
>
>> Anyone with experience in third-party email hosting?  Places like 
>> pobox.com and similar?
>>
>> Bellsouth's (now AT&T) mail servers have been annoyingly flaky for a 
>> month or so, delaying messages hours or even days, returning messages 
>> unsent after three days, etc.  So, I'm looking for somewhere that can 
>> host my email, letting me pick it up via POP3.  It needs to be an 
>> actual host, not just a redirector, as redirecting to my BS account 
>> wouldn't help in this case.
>>
>> I don't want to use gmail/hotmail, because I don't trust either 
>> company enough.  I don't mind paying a reasonable (<$100) yearly 
>> cost.  Running my own server is out, violates TOS and they port block.
>>
>> I've found pobox.com and a few others, but I'd like some reviews 
>> before I go to the hassle of changing my email address.
>>
>> --Brian
>>
>>  
>>
>