They have not blocked port 25 on their "legacy" EU Servers. On 20 Feb 2016 9:39 am, "Yang Yu" <yang.yu.l...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 9:18 PM, Tony Wicks <t...@wicks.co.nz> wrote: > > I had a couple of VM's (personal mail/web hosting) with a provider who > used Softlayer for transit. About a month ago Softlayer (without any notice > or warning) blocked all outgoing port 25 at multipole datacentres for this > provider. It took the hosting provider half a day to work out what had > happened. Needless to say as much as I liked the company I had to move my > hosts elsewhere (they did refund me to their credit). It seems that someone > at Softlayer is extremely aggressive on their blocking policies to the > point of making their service unusable. I would highly recommend the > community votes with its wallet when it comes to these turkeys. > > > > http://knowledgelayer.softlayer.com/content/outbound-email-port-25 > > The announcement supposedly came out sometime late last year. > "We offer a trusted third party email relay service from SendGrid for > those customers who need to be able to send outbound email from their > domains or applications." > > It seems some indirect customers were not informed of it until it went > into effect on Feb 1, 2016. For me the monitoring service on port 25 > stopped working. >