Re: [swinog] Re: blocking ports?

2007-04-13 Diskussionsfäden Schmid
-technical savy home folks. Did you have to prove to your ISP that you weren't spamming? If so, how did they have you do that? Thanks, scott --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Peter Bickel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [swinog] Re: blocking ports? Date

RE: [swinog] Re: blocking ports?

2007-04-13 Diskussionsfäden Ladu, Daniele
* Block destination port 25. This prevents bots from sending email directly to the victims MXes. No one wants to (must not) run an MTA in a dialup range: Many MXes dont accept emails orginating from dial-up rages. No one wants to (must not) run an MX in a dial-up range. The risk of delaying

Re: [swinog] Re: blocking ports?

2007-04-13 Diskussionsfäden Scott Weeks
] Subject: Re: [swinog] Re: blocking ports? Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:32:28 +0200 isn't the most spam comming via compromized Computers ? adsl Dynamic or dialup user you should never trust them if the say the dont spam. they have to send mail the way smtp is thought for, that means send email

Re: [swinog] Re: blocking ports?

2007-04-12 Diskussionsfäden Daniel Lorch
Hi This is what I was saying to the guys here at my work. We just need a small proof that the customer isn't a spammer and we open it up. However, most of our customers are less-technical savy home folks. Did you have to prove to your ISP that you weren't spamming? If so, how did they have

AW: [swinog] Re: blocking ports?

2007-04-11 Diskussionsfäden Radek Mrskos
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von jonathan Gesendet: Mittwoch, 11. April 2007 15:31 An: swinog@swinog.ch Betreff: Re: [swinog] Re: blocking ports? Sorry but I disagree with Per. ISPs have a duty to prevent email Spam which is a terrible curse for us all. If they decide that blocking port 25 outbound

Re: AW: [swinog] Re: blocking ports?

2007-04-11 Diskussionsfäden Per Jessen
Jonathan wrote: Sorry but I disagree with Per. ISPs have a duty to prevent email Spam which is a terrible curse for us all. If they decide that blocking port 25 outbound will help then they should do it. Just for the record - I don't have any problem with ISPs blocking ports or otherwise

Re: [swinog] Re: blocking ports?

2007-04-11 Diskussionsfäden Markus Wild
Jonathan, Sorry but I disagree with Per. ISPs have a duty to prevent email Spam which is a terrible curse for us all. If they decide that blocking port 25 outbound will help then they should do it. If you are a user, why can't you use the ISPs relay server? If you are a provider you

Re: [swinog] Re: blocking ports?

2007-04-11 Diskussionsfäden Gabriel Ambuehl
On Wednesday 11 April 2007 19:26:39 Markus Wild wrote: You'd be amazed how many companies operate their own mail servers, even behind dynamic addresses (in which case they usually use some mailbox polling mechanism to feed their server from mail from the outside), but send outgoing mail

Re: [swinog] Re: blocking ports?

2007-04-11 Diskussionsfäden Adrian Ulrich
Seems to me that the benefit of cutting down on Spam would be worth the trouble of using port 587... Blocking port 25 is just a quick-n-dirty 'fix'. What will happen when virus-writers are going to spam using 587 (The credentials are stored on the users PC anyway..)? What would people do to

Re: [swinog] Re: blocking ports?

2007-04-11 Diskussionsfäden Jeroen Massar
Adrian Ulrich wrote: Seems to me that the benefit of cutting down on Spam would be worth the trouble of using port 587... Blocking port 25 is just a quick-n-dirty 'fix'. What will happen when virus-writers are going to spam using 587 (The credentials are stored on the users PC anyway..)?

Re: [swinog] Re: blocking ports?

2007-04-11 Diskussionsfäden Scott Weeks
experiences, does anyone have pointers to data on folks that do this? scott --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Markus Wild [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: swinog@swinog.ch Subject: Re: [swinog] Re: blocking ports? Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 19:26:39 +0200 Jonathan, Sorry but I disagree with Per. ISPs have