On 06/04/2010 11:53 AM, Bob Frankston wrote:
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PS: Speaking of twisting winding passages. Verizon just started blocking
port 25 so this message didn’t go out till I guessed what was wrong. The
problem occurred while I was traveling to /All Things Digital!/ I got a
panicked call from my wife saying her email wasn’t going out. So I
remoted in to my desktop and thence her machine and corrected the problem.
How do normal people deal with this? Would they even know to see mail
stuck in “outgoing”? What about devices that have port 25 wired-in for
error reporting? I long ago gave up trying to directly contact with
other sites’ port 25. This is another example of challenge in trying to
wend ones way through the twisting and winding passages in the hills and
valleys of the ancient land of tele-communications.
In fairness to Verizon, they actually announced that in email to
customers on 5/4:
Email Program Users (Outlook®, Thunderbird, Mac Mail, etc)
* If you use a non-Verizon account such as Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo or
AOL to send your emails through a program like Outlook®, Thunderbird or
MacMail, you will need to make a simple change to your 'Server Port
Number' setting in your email account - change the 'Server Port 25'
setting to 'Server Port 587' setting. Visit www.verizon.net/port25 for
the quick and easy instructions on how to modify this setting.
Dave Kristol
[ There is no valid reason to prevent users who wish to run
their own mail servers -- for security and privacy reasons
if nothing else -- from doing so if they do not behave
in an abusive manner. Running your own mail servers
requires port 25 access. Of course, blocking port 25
for some tiers has proven to be a practical mechanism
to push users up to more expensive tiers where port
25 is more frequently available.
-- Lauren Weinstein
NNSquad Moderator ]
