RE: ISP outbound SMTP filtering

"Higham, Josh" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.operators.internet-access
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jeff Lasman
> 
> On Wednesday 30 May 2007 04:00 pm, william(at)elan.net wrote:
> 
> > Also another option to just direct blocking is redirection to your
> > own mail server by default. You have to think if you really want
> > those extra connections and related issues or not ...
> 
> AOL used to do that; I don't know if they still do or not.
> 
> If you do it, be sure to let your clients know you did it.  
> We're in the 
> hosting business and we really don't like getting all those 
> troubleshooting calls from clients who have no idea their outgoing 
> email isn't going through us; they think it is.
> 
> We've tried to educate them to use port 587, but most of them have no 
> idea what email program they use, no less where to make the change.

In some versions of Exchange, possibly including 2003, it cannot be
configured to use SSL on a port other than 25.  You can change cleartext
SMTP, but SSL required port 25.

Thanks,
Josh
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