But here's the problem. We host xyz.com
They want to send mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If their ISP is blocking SMTP, they can't send the email using their own
domain.
Most business avoid using @aol or @mindspring or whatever... makes them look
small time. I know that our clients are dropping Mindspring quickly over this.
I would expect this to continue. For a casual (private) user who surfs the
net,
this is no big deal. But for business customers, it eliminates Mindspring
(and similar ISPs) completely.
At 08:30 PM 10/23/99 -0500, you wrote:
>A lot of ISP's are limiting outbound SMTP to their own
>servers. Not sure of all the major players but it has greatly
>reduced the number of dialup-SMTP SPAM on my server.
>
>Saves me the trouble of putting them in the block myself.
>They can just as easily simply set their outgoing SMTP server
>to Mindspring's and it will work fine.
>
>By limiting outbound SMTP connections to their own servers
>they can hopefully nail spammers before it gets out of their network
>too. Notice how Mindspring's advertisements now boast spam
>filtering as a value-added service?
>
>Dusty
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Chris Ulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Saturday, October 23, 1999 7:58 PM
>Subject: [IMail Forum] Mindspring blocking SMTP?
>
>
> > A couple of them already dropped Mindspring & everything is back to OK.
> >
> > What's up? Are they shutting down the SMTP port?
> >
> > Does anyone have a list of any other ISP's doing the same thing?
>
>
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