[TriLUG] Suggestions for mail hosting.

[J.C. Jones]

Dave and Brian,

I spoke with an earthlink business rep just a few minutes ago. He said 
that earthlink service was open ports, except for 25 which is blocked. 
He said that MOST providers are blocking 25.

At the present time, for residential service, they are featuring 12.95 
per month for dsl for six months, then it goes to 39 dollars per month. 
static ip address for residential is 15 dollars extra.

I am a residential user as well and can't get the business service from 
either bellsouth or earthlink.

jcj

Dave Sorenson wrote:

> 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
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>

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