[ale] Bellsouth and SMTP

[James P. Kinney III]

On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 18:01 -0500, Bob Toxen wrote:
> Most ISPs block (and should block) OUTgoing port 25 traffic, i.e., your
> random TCP port number to port 25 of any system on the Internet except
> the ISP's outgoing mail server.  This is so their anti-spam software can
> detect a dishonest or compromised subscriber sending out lots of spam.
> 
> Blocking incoming traffic to your home system's TCP port 25 is just
> sleazy blackmail to force you to upgrade to higher priced business
> service.  That's also why they block incoming traffic to TCP port 80.
> If the FCC wasn't corrupt Mmmmm [Girlfriend applies duct tape to mouth
> to stop ranting].

A friendly recommendation. Keep the duct tape out of reach and
substitute gaffers tape. Looks like duct tape, should fool most SO's
into using for mouth covering/rant repressing but it leaves no sticky
residue behind. Much easier to remove gaffer tape from a bearded face
that duct tape. Don't even keep any of the aluminum tape in the house.
Bad news. Very bad news.

:}


> 
> I got tired of the incompetent morons at Comcast (my opinion) screwing
> up my outbound email so I just set up a SSH-based VPN from my firewall's
> inside port to a server I lease access to.
> 
> I suppose that I should do something similar for incoming email but
> fetchmail works.
> 
> Bob Toxen
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> 
> "Microsoft: Unsafe at any clock speed!"
>    -- Bob Toxen 10/03/2002
> 
> On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 06:39:11PM -0500, David Corbin wrote:
> > I know that Bellsouth prohibits incoming connections on port 25 for their 
> > basic DSL package.  Does anyone know if that is also the case for people with 
> > static IPs?
> 
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