I suggest that you look at the /etc/services file on a Unix box. Will tell you what ports are "commonly" used. 26 is unassigned.
As long as spam works...it will continue to be an issue. I suspect they are only blocking to keep the law off their backside. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron Mast Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 10:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: SBC blocking outgoing mail port 25 LOL, yeah...it's not just SBC, freakin' Charter Communication is doing it too. One day, my email decided not to work, but webmail worked fine. Hmmm, lost? YES. Spent a long time trying to find what the hell was going on. Had to telnet check port 25 and sure enough it was being blocked. Solution, changed Outlook to port 26 and walla! When is port 26 going to be blocked? I'm sure there's a technical explanation to why 26 may never be blocked, but it's a damn good question. Pathetic indeed. Ron -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jack Lavender Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 8:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: SBC blocking outgoing mail port 25 Cute I am sure I have paid that in spades and will end up doing so many times again. It is a part of doing business. Learning to use the tools takes time to diagnose problems is ever painful. This issue has been going on for a long time with dialup and will continue to ripple until we can get people to stop acting as unsecured relays. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adrian J. Moreno Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 8:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: SBC blocking outgoing mail port 25 Finding out your client's ISP has blocked the default outgoing mail port? $1000 in non-billable time Telling sendmail to use an alternate port number for outgoing mail? $0 Time spent to teach most every customer how to re-configure their e-mail client to use an alternate outgoing mail port? Ludicrous -- Adrian Jack Lavender wrote: > Hmmm....learn how to use telnet to spoof a connection and you would know it > was blocked. > > Then if you are using sendmail....it is fairly simple to tell it to listen > on another port. > > Jack ---------------------------------------------------------- To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberUnsubscribe.cfm To subscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberRegistration.cfm ---------------------------------------------------------- To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberUnsubscribe.cfm To subscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberRegistration.cfm ---------------------------------------------------------- To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberUnsubscribe.cfm To subscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberRegistration.cfm ---------------------------------------------------------- To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberUnsubscribe.cfm To subscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberRegistration.cfm
