RE: ISP outbound SMTP filtering
"Higham, Josh" <[email protected]>
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> [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 _______________________________________________ "Eat sushi frequently". - Avi [email protected] is the human contact address. [email protected] is the list posting address. See below URL for subscribe/unsubscribe and list options: http://inet-access.net/mailman/listinfo/list