[TriLUG] OT: ATT UVerse internet access

[Brian McCullough]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 03:38:55PM -0400, Matt Pusateri wrote:
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> So if they are blocking outbound port 25 to your mail server, they may not be filtering port 587.  I've never actually seen a home ISP block connections out to port 25.  I can see why some would.  

Unfortunately, Matt, I had exactly this problem with dear old BellSouth.  If my system sent outbound e-mail on port 25, it was blocked unless the destination host address on that packet was something like ( I don't remember the address precisely ) smtp.bellsouth.net.



Brian