Re: [DDN] Verizon Wireless announcement re. shutting down SMTP service
Christian Stalberg cstal...@stalberg.net wrote: Verizon Wireless has announced that it intends to cease providing SMTP service to its broadband customers ffective August 29, 2009. For those of us who live in rural areas, Verizon Wireless broadband service is the only ISP service available. To lose SMTP service - which is primary to all ISPs - will cause me and others in rural areas irrepairable harm. In view of the open architectural principles of the internet, it is quite impossible for your provider's unwillingness to provide some specific add-on service to be worse than a mere inconvenience. In this particular case, it isn't even particularly difficult to work around the issue. You're welcome to contact me off-list if you're interested in learning how. Greetings, Norbert -- siug.ch -- Swiss Internet User Group, an initiative of /ch/open adaptux.com -- Empowering adaptation of IT to your business processes ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to digitaldivide-requ...@digitaldivide.net with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
Re: [DDN] Verizon Wireless announcement re. shutting down SMTP service
Verizon Wireless has announced that it intends to cease providing SMTP service to its broadband customers snip) Are you sure this is correct? I understand Verizon intends to stop SMTP relay services (mostly not needed by today's ISP's who allow outbound mail from non local IP's) however I do not believe they intend to stop providing SMTP services to broadband customers. This would only impact people who try and send mail hosted by a different ISP, and the ISP does not allow mail delivery through a non local IP. Don On Tue 28/07/09 11:00 PM , christian stalberg cstal...@stalberg.net sent: Verizon Wireless has announced that it intends to cease providing SMTP service to its broadband customers ffective August 29, 2009. For those of us who live in rural areas, Verizon Wireless broadband service is the only ISP service available. To lose SMTP service - which is primary to all ISPs - will cause me and others in rural areas irrepairable harm. The Verizon announcement can be vised at http://support.vzw.com/information/smtp_shutdown.html [1] This is an extreme hardship for me as I use email clients on my personal computer to manage my email. Web mail SMTP service is not an option. I have several domain names that I use for my email addresses to conduct various business and webmail is known to not easily support use of multiple domain names in its addressing. Please contact your state telecommunications authority and Verizon Wireless regarding this matter. Thank you. ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide [2] To unsubscribe, send a message to digitaldivide-requ...@digitaldivide.net with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. Links: -- [1] http://webmail.internode.on.net/parse.php?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fsupport.vzw.com%2Finformation%2Fsmtp_shutdown.html [2] http://webmail.internode.on.net/parse.php?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fdigitaldivide.net%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fdigitaldivide ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to digitaldivide-requ...@digitaldivide.net with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
