[ale] AT&T blocked

[Paul Cartwright]

On Wed February 18 2009, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> Many of our employees work from home and have AT&T DSL.  I did not want
> to have them run
> one configuration in Outlook for home and another on the road.  Too much
> of a pain to administer.  We
> configured all laptops to use port 26 on our mail server for SMTP.  On
> our mail server I used iptables
> to map 26 back to 25
>
> /sbin/iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -s 0.0.0.0/0  --dport 26 -j
> REDIRECT --to-ports 25
>
> We use SMTP authentication to prevent becoming a relay and this setup
> seems to work well for us.

not sure what this has to do with me... I use SSL & secure authentication 
already, on all my accounts.. I don't think **I** am the relay problem at 
Amscomputers, but it seems that they do have some users that might be a 
problem..

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Paul Cartwright
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