Re: Is your ISP blocking outgoing port 25?

2009-06-22 Thread John Levine
It's a pity that MAAWG or another group hasn't written a specification for the automatic downloading of configuration (with certificates, to be sure, for some kind of repudiation) and the update thereof, for adoption by the leading consumer e-mail clients. MAAWG decided it's not in the standards

RE: Is your ISP blocking outgoing port 25?

2009-06-22 Thread Matthew Huff
- From: Frank Bulk [mailto:frnk...@iname.com] Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 11:14 AM To: 'John Levine'; nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: Is your ISP blocking outgoing port 25? The bootstrap question is addressed by requiring the end-user to know their e-mail address and password. Based

RE: Is your ISP blocking outgoing port 25?

2009-06-22 Thread Ted Hardie
At 9:38 AM -0700 6/22/09, John R. Levine wrote: The bootstrap question is addressed by requiring the end-user to know their e-mail address and password. Based on the domain name, the implementation would reach out to https://something.domain-name.tld and download the relevant schema and data

Re: Is your ISP blocking outgoing port 25?

2009-06-19 Thread Jeroen Wunnink
We just open port 2525 for customers from ISP's blocking official SMTP ports so they can use their dedicated servers/domain mailservers. Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 16:14 -0400, Joe Provo wrote: then you should be shifting your userbase to authenticated on the SUBMIT

Re: Is your ISP blocking outgoing port 25?

2009-06-19 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
Sent from my iPhone, please excuse any errors. On Jun 19, 2009, at 8:53, Jeroen Wunnink jer...@easyhosting.nl wrote: We just open port 2525 for customers from ISP's blocking official SMTP ports so they can use their dedicated servers/domain mailservers. Is there any reason you do not use

Re: Is your ISP blocking outgoing port 25?

2009-06-19 Thread Jeroen Wunnink
Yes.. 1. Customers remember it more easily 2. Some ISP's also block 587 (hence 'SMTP ports' rather then 'SMTP port' in my previous comment ;-) Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Sent from my iPhone, please excuse any errors. On Jun 19, 2009, at 8:53, Jeroen Wunnink jer...@easyhosting.nl wrote:

Re: Is your ISP blocking outgoing port 25?

2009-06-19 Thread Randy Bush
We just open port 2525 for customers from ISP's blocking official SMTP ports so they can use their dedicated servers/domain mailservers. for personal use, i have a box that has sshd running on 443 and i tunnel 2525 through it. that worked even in the narita red rug when they were at their

RE: Is your ISP blocking outgoing port 25?

2009-06-19 Thread Eric J Esslinger
. Customers may send outbound mail through our SMTP server, or connect via alternate ports to their SMTP server. From: Zhiyun Qian [zhiy...@umich.edu] Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 2:36 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Is your ISP blocking outgoing port 25

Re: Is your ISP blocking outgoing port 25?

2009-06-19 Thread Paul M Moriarty
ATT is the major one that I know of that is still enforcing this policy. But they said they can unblock port 25 upon request. I am not sure how easy it is. It's trivial. A web form. You get the link when you try to send mail to port 25 anywhere else. At least with Yahoo/SBC dsl. I got

Re: Is your ISP blocking outgoing port 25?

2009-06-19 Thread Sean Donelan
On Fri, 19 Jun 2009, Jeroen Wunnink wrote: 1. Customers remember it more easily 2. Some ISP's also block 587 (hence 'SMTP ports' rather then 'SMTP port' in my previous comment ;-) Those same clueless ISPs will probably block 2525 someday too, clueless expands to fill any void. And using

Re: Is your ISP blocking outgoing port 25?

2009-06-19 Thread Steven King
Most MTAs don't come preconfigured with port 587 either. It is amazing how many people/organizations go with the if it isn't broke, don't fix it mentality, even though it clearly needs to be revised and something new needs to be done/supported. Email needs to be revamped on a larger scale than

Re: Is your ISP blocking outgoing port 25?

2009-06-19 Thread Michael Thomas
Sean Donelan wrote: On Fri, 19 Jun 2009, Jeroen Wunnink wrote: 1. Customers remember it more easily 2. Some ISP's also block 587 (hence 'SMTP ports' rather then 'SMTP port' in my previous comment ;-) Those same clueless ISPs will probably block 2525 someday too, clueless expands to fill any

RE: Is your ISP blocking outgoing port 25?

2009-06-18 Thread Paul Stewart
Subject: Is your ISP blocking outgoing port 25? It has been long heard that many ISPs block outgoing port 25 for the purpose of reducing spam originated from their network. I wonder which ISPs are still doing so. I know comcast has been doing that but they cancelled it after many complaints

Re: Is your ISP blocking outgoing port 25?

2009-06-18 Thread Charles Wyble
Zhiyun Qian wrote: It has been long heard that many ISPs block outgoing port 25 for the purpose of reducing spam originated from their network. Well blocking or redirecting to there servers, which have an undocumented filtering policy. All one needs to do in order to bypass that is use a

RE: Is your ISP blocking outgoing port 25?

2009-06-18 Thread Paul Stewart
We don't force SSL but do have several SMTP servers they can use -Original Message- From: Charles Wyble [mailto:char...@thewybles.com] Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 3:55 PM To: NANOG list Subject: Re: Is your ISP blocking outgoing port 25? Do you provide your users an SMTP server

Re: Is your ISP blocking outgoing port 25?

2009-06-18 Thread Joe Provo
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 03:36:44PM -0400, Zhiyun Qian wrote: It has been long heard that many ISPs block outgoing port 25 for the purpose of reducing spam originated from their network. Yes, it is standard practice for non-server accounts and most dynamic-only accounts; only allow

Re: Is your ISP blocking outgoing port 25?

2009-06-18 Thread John Levine
I wonder which ISPs are still doing so. I know comcast has been doing that but they cancelled it after many complaints. It seems to be the same case for Verizon. You're mistaken. Comcast most certainly does port 25 filtering, although not necessarily on every line at every moment. So does

Re: Is your ISP blocking outgoing port 25?

2009-06-18 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 16:14 -0400, Joe Provo wrote: then you should be shifting your userbase to authenticated on the SUBMIT port [587] anyway... Except for those ISPs who choose to intercept port 587 as well. This is a big problem with Rogers in Vancouver. They hijack port 587 connections

Re: Is your ISP blocking outgoing port 25?

2009-06-18 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Lyndon Nerenberglyn...@orthanc.ca wrote: On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 16:14 -0400, Joe Provo wrote: then you should be shifting your userbase to authenticated on the SUBMIT port [587] anyway... Except for those ISPs who choose to intercept port 587 as well. This is

Re: Is your ISP blocking outgoing port 25?

2009-06-18 Thread Jack Bates
Christopher Morrow wrote: in all seriousness, most isp's (consumer provider folk) today do some form of blocking of port 25, if you are 'smart' enough to evade this sort of thing, then you can still do email/blah. 99.999% of users are: 1) not interested in bypassing it 2) not clued into what's