On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 01:26:56 +1000, Matthew Davidson wrote: > It appears Bigpond is blocking all outgoing traffic on port 25, except
They've supposedly been doing that for months, although not very reliably. My mail server still gets connections to port 25 from bigpond addresses. > The announcement that they were doing this > (http://www.bigpond.com/announcement/) was almost, but not quite, as > discreet as displaying it in a locked filing cabinet in a disused > lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'beware of the leopard'. It's I believe they emailed every bigpond customer about it. I support a remote bigpond user and he told me about it a month in advance, because he received an email telling him it was happening. > As far as I can see, it's now impossible to run your own SMTP server via Of course it's possible, you just have to relay via their servers. Or setup a relay elsewhere on a port which isn't blocked (or via a vpn). > am I unreasonable in thinking this is a bit heavy-handed? It is a bit, but it has reduced the number of spam attempts I get from bigpond dynamic IPs, so it's not all bad. It'd be even better if their mail relays weren't so unreliable -- outgoing mail is sometimes held for hours or even days for no apparent reason. Cheers, John -- "... every credible survey which has ever been conducted has concluded that filtering software is to Internet users what meat-mincers are to cows ..." -- Mark Newton -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
