The answer to when it's going to be blocked is simple. Whenever the traffic of Trojan mail servers starts beating up on port 26 for their smtp spam traffic, that port will be blocked and on we'll go to the next port. If I was SBC or one of the other ISP companies, I'd make customers pay extra for port 25 usage and/or I'd make them accountable for the broadcasts from their machines on that port. The amount of spam that comes from (insert name of ignorant user here)'s machine on port 25 because they have a mail server installed without their knowledge is absolutely incredible.
I think it's time that users are held accountable for keeping their machines clean and not allowing infected machines to pollute the web with junk. There are too many easy/cheap software packages available which are capable of keeping virus and spyware at bay. Email has almost completely ceased to be a truly useful form of communication because of these problems. I think it would be totally fair if my ISP said, "Hey, your machine is broadcasting spam. This is just a warning, but you need to make sure your antivirus and anti-spyware software is up to date. If the problem continues, your account may be deactivated. Please see our online store for some software that might help you... whatever..." I, personally, would not have a problem with my ISP doing something like that. I think it might help out quite a lot if all the big ISP's started doing that. Of course, what do I know, right? --Ferg -----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
