you could set the mailer to point to a non-standard (unblocked) port
On 9/1/01 6:59 AM, "Diane L. Schirf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 8/31/01 10:21, Steve Sell at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> What CAN happen is that your ISP can set all of their routers to
>> block any traffic that is destined for ANY port 25 unless the traffic
>> originates on their mail server.
>>
>> This effectively says that only mail to or from one of their servers can be
>> sent.
>>
>> Even though your sendmail would accept the mail from your client, it would
>> need to make a connection to port 25 on the destination computer to deliver
>> the mail. If your ISP is blocking all TCP/IP packets desitined for port 25
>> (unless it's theirs), that connection will not happen.
>
> This is exactly what Earthlink/Mindspring does -- blocks port 25.
Dr Timothy Bates <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science (MACCS)
Macquarie University
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