Re: ISP outbound SMTP filtering

Pete Templin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.operators.internet-access
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Blake Pfankuch wrote:

> Having been one of those people who ran a mail server from a business
>  class DSL line who had to fight for many weeks to get my isp to stop
>  filtering all traffic on port 25

Hmmm...your ISP wouldn't let you send ANY email, not even through their
SMTP server?

Seriously, what's so bad about relaying outbound through their server?
If you don't send spam, you won't get filtered, and letting the mail
queue on their server means it's not tying up your server.

> After your first warning you have 48 hours to correct the situation, 
> or I will disable your service until it is fixed.

Do you disable the "port" in question, or their entire access?  Who's
being heavy-handed here?

> I think as net admins its our job to make things easy for the client.
> Not to put on our holier than thou cap and try to protect the world
> from our clients who don't know what they are doing.

Are you seriously saying it's more important to make things easier than 
it is to protect from ridiculously unprotected PCs?

pt
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