On 15/11/05, Shea Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Your connections to hotmail are consistently timing out. Are you > > running your server on a residential DSL line? My guess is that your > > ISP is blocking outgoing port 25. I stopped using Sympatico years ago > > when they abruptly started blocking _incoming_ port 25, without > > warning; I wouldn't be at all surprised if they've started blocking > > outgoing 25 as well, which is actually a much saner thing to do for > > residential DSL service. If that's the case, you'll have to submit > > messages via your ISP's smarthost.
> You are correct, I am on sympatico. I guess that is the reason. Thanks > for the help. One more reason to drop them. They also have a DHCP lease > time of 3hrs. > > Eastlink here I come. Although be warned that a number of sites are blocking (or at least running SpamAssassin rules that mark down) senders on dynamic IP addresses. If you want to send e-mail directly, you should get an ISP who can give you a static IP in a block that is separate from their DHCP block. cheers, John -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
