djrobx
join:2000-05-31
Valencia, CA
 ·AT&T U-Verse
 ·AT&T CallVantage
·Time Warner VOIP
 ·RoadRunner Cable
 ·DSL EXTREME
| reply to kkb
Re: Earthlink blocks port 25 outgoing!
If you were an Earthlink customer, you could still send out the Line Monitoring reports via Earthlink servers. You are right that private SMTP servers would need to be reconfigured, but that's somewhat unusual, most people get to their "private" e-mail accounts via VPN, which the port blocking would not affect.
I do agree that some notice would have been a good idea to protect those few who might be using outgoing SMTP connections respectably. As much as I dislike port blocking in general, I do think the good outweighs the bad in this situation. |
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Bubba Joe
@uswest.net
| This is excellent.
Anyone can still have email delivered to their external domain, i.e. joe@otherdomain.com
All you do is set up your email program for Earthlink to say Joe@otherdomain.com as the reply address instead of Joe@earthlink.com
This is NO problem for anyone at all. In the grand scheme of life! It does, however, punish those losers who spam people because they can't get a real job. The harassment will start to slowly end as other ISPs will follow. Remember, Earthlink is #2 (a distant #2) after AOL.
Good MOVE! |
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