I'm coming in late on this discussion.but I'm going to propose that his dial-up provider (Copper.net) recently added port 25 blocking and Qwest still hasn't done so.
Some ISPs block the TCP port used by email clients to send messages to mail servers. This is so that their users must use the ISP's SMTP servers to send mail. This helps to prevent worm/trojan/zombied machines from sending infected/spam messages directly. It has the unfortunate side-effect that users of the ISP cannot send mail through SMTP servers that don't belong to the ISP. The ideal work around would be if Richard's drshane.com hosting company would listen for SMTP communication on an alternate port other than 25 (587 is a standard...I use 2025 on the server I run). -Remo Del Bello -- "Even if a man chops off your hand with a sword, you still have two nice sharp bones to stick in his eyes." - Kendo proverb -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
