Petri Laihonen wrote:
Why use cox mail at all?
Only couple months after signing up with cox I realized that the mail
service (any direction) was not trustworthy. Especially I did not want
to lose any important business mail, so I decided to start using my own
mail server entirely. I've had to change my mailing preferences only
once when cox started blocking port 25. Now I just tunnel it through
SSH directly to my server. (additional advantage with tunneling
outgoing mail with SSH is that I don't have to worry about mail
sniffing in the public places either....until SSH2 becomes vulnerable)
Cox also does not filter port 587 (submission). So if you have a
server running SMTP-AUTH+TLS on port 587 you can just send directly to
it. Port 25 is really for mail server to mail server communications
and port 587 for authenticated client-> mail server communications.
Here's the RFC: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2476.txt which describes the
difference between SMTP and submission mail protocols.
If you use gmail, you can just use gmail as your submission server and
bypass Cox entirely. And you don't need your own server. Just tell
you mail program (kmail, thunderbird) to use "smtp.gmail.com" as the
outgoing mail server. Port 587 as the port. And enable SSL encryption.
Petri
willhill wrote:
The only thing that makes a difference is the IP address in the message body.
I tried sending it here and I tried sending it to the CCCC general list and I
tried sending it to a friend and I tried sending it to two addresses from the
debian-people mailing list. Replacing the numeric address in the body of the
message allowed me to get the same mesage through to my friend today. It's
something that I've been doing to share with my family, the BRLUG and the
CCCC mail list.
Really, I'm using plain text messages sent by Kmail through Cox's smtp
servers. Nothing special or fancy. It's a text body email filter.
On Tuesday 29 January 2008 1:20 pm, Scott Harney wrote:
Was the "To:" field in your email "To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" or to a
DNS-registered name, eg "To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"
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