[TriLUG] AT&T dsl email question

[Jason Watts]

we have set it up for port 26 and it works.  I was just trying to confirm if
its a problem with my ISP... or the server and figured at least one of you
guys would be able to answer that.

Thanks for confirming Brian

jsn




On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Brian Daniels <bitmage at pobox.com> wrote:

>  On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 04:27:38PM -0500, Jason Watts wrote:
> > Guys,
> >
> > I have to connect directly to an smtp server on port 25 for work.  I
> cannot
> > for the life of me get it to connect.  I have heard about ISP's doing
> > strange things/rerouting packets, but wanted to ask if anyone has seen
> this
> > behavior off of at&t's dsl out in chapel hill.
> >
> >
> AFAIK, AT&T blocks access to port 25 except for their mailserver.  Can you
> reach
> it on another port (587?)
>
> --Brian
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