RE: ISP outbound SMTP filtering
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| Message-ID | <061e01c7a3c3$856c83a0$2300a8c0@andrew2> |
Higham, Josh wrote: >> [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. You could always do port-forwarding on your favorite router/switch/firewall sitting in front of your exchange server. Andrew _______________________________________________ "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